Hello Vladimir

Thank you for = the help. I have now had some success, but it would have gone better if I h= ad taken care of the dependencies first, instead of having repeated adventu= res with ./configure.

I will likely be having to check more dependen= cies soon because, it seems, if I am going to have a PCB, and gEDA suite th= at is more recent than 5 years old, then I have to fetch the latest stable = versions, check dependencies first, and then install.

With the= kind help from Dmitry, I did succeed in getting past the stumbles over dep= endencies in ./configure, and do #make install, and it (mostly) worked!
=

After launching pcb, the output from Window =3D> About no= w reads..

---------------------------------------------------= ----
This is PCB, an interactive
printed circuit board editor
vers= ion v4.2.0-gb2bcf627

Compiled on Apr=C2=A0 5 2019 at 21:38:12
by harry eaton
--------------------------------------------------------=

Note:
At the very end of the # make install, I= did see some messages about texi.
-------------------------------------= ------------------
pcb.texi:2791: @include: could not find options.texi<= br>pcb.texi:4656: @include: could not find pcbfile.texi
pcb.texi:5870: @= include: could not find wire_size.texi
pcb.texi:5873: @include: could no= t find letter_size.texi
pcb.texi:5876: @include: could not find fraction= al_size.texi
pcb.texi:5879: @include: could not find metric_size.texipcb.texi:6018: @include: could not find actions.texi
pcb.texi:5961: @re= f reference to nonexistent node `Renumber Action'
pcb.texi:4335: @me= nu reference to nonexistent node `Object Flags'
pcb.texi:4336: @menu= reference to nonexistent node `PCBFlags'
Makefile:602: recipe for t= arget 'pcb.info' = failed
make[2]: *** [pcb.i= nfo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/graham/Downloads/= PCB-gEDA/doc'
Makefile:892: recipe for target 'install' fail= ed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/ho= me/graham/Downloads/PCB-gEDA/doc'
Makefile:537: recipe for target &#= 39;install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1-------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------

I do not know how essential this te= xi is, and I am guessing that 'Object Flags' and 'PCBFlags'= sound kind of important!
It did not prevent PCB from launching.

=

I attempted to remove the old 2014 version of pcb, which lives i= n /usr/share/pcb.

When I tried, the message said it was going to re= move geda-xgsch2pcb as well!

At this point I remember tha= t very likely the whole rest of the geda suite has somewhat been left behin= d.

I have all of them installed- like geda-gschem, and geda-g= attrib, and geda-symbols, and more.

Several install via the g= eda metapackage in the Ubuntu repository.

All are at version 1:1.8= .2-5, very likely also 5 years old!

Clearly I have to do = something about that.

I am shortly to upgrade the whole distr= o, and be using some new SSD hardware.

I expect that even aft= er upgrade to the latest Linux Mint 19.1, the Ubuntu repository it uses wil= l probably still be distributing gEDA and pcb versions somewhat from the pa= st.

If I want it to be at the latest stable version, then it = has to be done this way.

Thank you all again f= or your kind assistance

My regards

Graham

On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 18:46, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <= ;geda-help AT delor= ie.com> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 04:28:55PM +0100, Graham S (graham DOT seale AT gmail DOT com) [via= geda-help AT delor= ie.com] wrote:
> Hello Dmitry and Chad
>
> Firstly, thank you for your help on PCB
> We have now gone considerable further in getting through ./configure.<= br> >
> I tried the $ ./configure --disable-dbus, and it worked, until the nex= t
> stumble over OpenGL
> This confused me because I have other applications which used OpenGL.<= br> > Anyway, I installed GLX-related likely looking programs mentioning Ope= nGL
> until it worked.
>
> Now the script stops at..
> ------------------------------------------------------
>=C2=A0 checking for GTK... no
> configure: error: Cannot find gtk+ >=3D 2.18.0, install it and reru= n
> ./configure
> Please review the following errors:
> No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Again confusing to me, because the whole system is GTK and I checked i= n
> Synaptic to see it already installed ..
> gtk2-engines=C2=A0 =C2=A0version =3D> 1.2.20.2-3ubuntu1=C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0"Theme engines for GTK+ 2.x"
>
> Do we disable the check for gtk+-2.0 as well?
>
> Regards
> Graham

On Debian, development packages have the "-dev" suffix. You can search for them using info on your previously installed version of
pcb, e.g. as follows:

~ $ apt-cache depends pcb
pcb
=C2=A0|Depends: pcb-gtk
=C2=A0 Depends: pcb-lesstif
=C2=A0 Depends: pcb-common

pcb is a metapackage, so this info is not very much
informative. Let's try then:

~ $ apt-cache depends pcb-gtk
pcb-gtk
=C2=A0 Depends: libc6
=C2=A0 Depends: libcairo2
=C2=A0 Depends: libdbus-1-3
=C2=A0 Depends: libgd3
=C2=A0 Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
=C2=A0 Depends: libgl1
=C2=A0 Depends: libglib2.0-0
=C2=A0|Depends: libglu1-mesa
=C2=A0 Depends: <libglu1>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 libglu1-mesa
=C2=A0 Depends: libgtk2.0-0
=C2=A0 Depends: libgtkglext1
=C2=A0 Depends: pcb-common

All the "lib*" packages mentioned here have appropriate
"development" relatives. You can search them by name.

~ $ apt-cache search libgtkglext1
libgtkglext1 - OpenGL Extension to GTK+ (shared libraries)
libgtkglext1-dbg - OpenGL Extension to GTK+ (debugging symbols)
libgtkglext1-dev - OpenGL Extension to GTK+ (development files)
libgtkglext1-doc - OpenGL Extension to GTK+ (documentation)

Here you can see that for having opengl you have to install
'libgtkglext1-dev'. The same you can do for other libs.

There are other tools. For example:

~ $ sudo apt-get build-dep pcb-gtk

should install necessary dependencies automagically. This will
work if pcb did not change its dependencies since the version
you've used previously.

There are also other helper tools, like 'grep-dctrl'. I have not investigated it much, though.

HTH

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=C2=A0 Vladimir

(=CE=BB)=CE=B5=CF=80=CF=84=CF=8C=CE=BD EDA =E2=80=94 https://github.com= /lepton-eda

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