I have actually had quite the reverse experience on Ubunt= u 20.04 LTS. While gEDA was not in the repositories, lepton was or was almo= st trivially installable. Older ubuntu versions came with an outdated gEDA = in the repositories so I've been compiling gEDA from release source tar= balls and git for quite some time now, but after about a half hour of deali= ng with dependencies and the build still failing I just gave up and decided= to use lepton.=C2=A0

This fol= lowed an issue with gEDA on a previous Ubuntu install (probably 19.10) wher= e all of a sudden gschem segfaults on start-up for no apparent reason.=C2= =A0

While I am not parti= cularly happy that gEDA development (within which I include both lepton, xo= rn, pcb, and pcb-rnd) has become this complicated web of forks and seemingl= y unmaintained software, I for one am relieved that lepton exists so I can = still use my old schematics.=C2=A0

As an aside, I might note that lepton forked gschem at an unfort= unate point. The gschem UI is in a state in lepton which, in my opinion, is= very annoying. The side panels are pretty useless as they stand now to hav= e permanent residence on a big portion of the screen. Gschem did go through= that same phase, which was when I started using the git head more regularl= y once they cleaned up that side panel layout and made it more useful. It w= ould be nice if lepton could do something about it as well.=C2=A0

I do not wish to belittle the eff= ort it takes to create and maintain these pieces of software or start some = kind of flame war, but I do think this fork and associated issues will have= to be resolved one way or the other sooner rather than later, or gEDA (and= lepton) will continue to leak mindshare. My suspicion is that the fork whi= ch is able to keep distribution packages and installers updated will be the= one that wins out. We're already talking about investigating the use o= f kicad, even though we have a number of hand rolled tools which specifical= ly depend on the much friendlier file format of gschem.

On Sat, 5 Sep, 2020, 12:32 Torben Friis (friistf AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com], <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

Hi,
I think I have bee= n mixed up in problems and arguments I dont understand.
Please compare m= y situation as a user of gEDA with the situation I am in now. With gEDA I c= ould install it by a simple statement or a click in Ubuntu programs and I h= ad access to a very good tutorial. Now I have spent 4 days installing Lepto= n-eda and I am not finished yet and there is no tutorial. I am also left wi= th the feeling that the Lepton-eda project is in trouble. Is there an autho= rised version of Lepton-eda? Is there a tutorial coming? What is Ubuntu'= ;s role now? Does gEDA still exist and being maintained?
I realize that = "you guys" work out of interest for the project, but I would just= like to know the situation so I can decide wether I should go back to Ubun= tu 18.01 and gEDA or wether I should continue my installation and wait for = a tutorial.
Am I the only user in difficulty?
Best regards
torben<= /div>

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 7:55 PM Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> = wrote:
On Fri, S= ep 04, 2020 at 06:05:19PM +0200, Torben Friis (friistf AT gmail DOT com) [via <= a href=3D"mailto:geda-help AT delorie DOT com" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer= ">geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Hi,
> Done processing.=C2=A0 Work performed:
> 2 file elements and 0 m4 elements added to board.pcb.
>
> Next step:
> 1.=C2=A0 Run pcb on your file board.pcb.
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0You will find all your footprints in a bundle ready= for you to place
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0or disperse with "Select -> Disperse all el= ements" in PCB.
>
> 2.=C2=A0 From within PCB, select "File -> Load netlist file&qu= ot; and select
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0board.net to load the netlist.
>
> 3.=C2=A0 From within PCB, enter
>
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 :ExecuteFile(board.cmd)
>
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0to propagate the pin names of all footprints to the= layout.
>
> torben AT torben-Aspire-E5-773G:~/lepton-cli/proj1$ pcb board.pcb
>
> (pcb:8515): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 17:57:26.755: IA__gtk_window_resize: asse= rtion
> 'width > 0' failed
> Killed
>
> As it appears I get a blank screen?
>
> Are the files set up as shown below correct? - it is taken straight ou= t of
> gsch2pcb tutorial:
>
> torben AT torben-Aspire-E5-773G:~/lepton-cli/proj1$ ls
> alarm1.sch=C2=A0 packages=C2=A0 project

Cannot say anything since I cannot see their contents :-)

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=C2=A0 Vladimir

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