Hi Shashank Chintalagiri,
Lepton, xo= rn, pcb, and pcb-rnd - are they all forks? It is elements that I know nothi= ng about and which a user should'nt need to know about.
I think an i= nstallation instruction and a tutorial would do a lot for Lepton. The insta= llation instruction for Ubuntu 20.04 would take about 11 lines and should n= ot be too difficult to maintain. Could'nt the tutorial pretty easily be= produced on basis of the gsch2pcb tutorial by changing some file- and comm= and names?
Best regards
torben

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 3:04 PM Sh= ashank Chintalagiri (sha= shank DOT chintalagiri AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <

I have actually had quite the reve= rse experience on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. While gEDA was not in the repositories,= lepton was or was almost trivially installable. Older ubuntu versions came= with an outdated gEDA in the repositories so I've been compiling gEDA = from release source tarballs and git for quite some time now, but after abo= ut a half hour of dealing with dependencies and the build still failing I j= ust gave up and decided to use lepton.=C2=A0

This followed an issue with gEDA on a previous Ubuntu instal= l (probably 19.10) where all of a sudden gschem segfaults on start-up for n= o apparent reason.=C2=A0

While I am not particularly happy that gEDA development (within which I in= clude both lepton, xorn, pcb, and pcb-rnd) has become this complicated web = of forks and seemingly unmaintained software, I for one am relieved that le= pton exists so I can still use my old schematics.=C2=A0

As an aside, I might note that lepton forke= d gschem at an unfortunate point. The gschem UI is in a state in lepton whi= ch, in my opinion, is very annoying. The side panels are pretty useless as = they stand now to have permanent residence on a big portion of the screen. = Gschem did go through that same phase, which was when I started using the g= it head more regularly once they cleaned up that side panel layout and made= it more useful. It would be nice if lepton could do something about it as = well.=C2=A0

I do not wis= h to belittle the effort it takes to create and maintain these pieces of so= ftware or start some kind of flame war, but I do think this fork and associ= ated issues will have to be resolved one way or the other sooner rather tha= n later, or gEDA (and lepton) will continue to leak mindshare. My suspicion= is that the fork which is able to keep distribution packages and installer= s updated will be the one that wins out. We're already talking about in= vestigating the use of kicad, even though we have a number of hand rolled t= ools which specifically 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-he= lp AT delorie DOT com], <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

Hi,
I = think I have been mixed up in problems and arguments I dont understand.
= Please compare my situation as a user of gEDA with the situation I am in no= w. With gEDA I could install it by a simple statement or a click in Ubuntu = programs and I had access to a very good tutorial. Now I have spent 4 days = installing Lepton-eda and I am not finished yet and there is no tutorial. I= am also left with the feeling that the Lepton-eda project is in trouble. I= s there an authorised version of Lepton-eda? Is there a tutorial coming? Wh= at 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 Ubuntu 18.01 and gEDA or wether I should continue my installati= on and wait for a tutorial.
Am I the only user in difficulty?
Best re= gards
torben

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 7:55 PM Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhba= nov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <geda-help AT delo= rie.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 06:05:19PM +0200, Torben Friis (friistf AT gmail= .com) [via 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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