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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:17:42 +0200
From: Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>
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To: gEDA User Mailing List <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: [geda-user] The gEDA experience on Ubuntu 12.04
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Hello fellows,

a few days ago I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04, which is 
about to be released these days. The gEDA/PCB experience is, well, less 
than enthusiastic. Currently, Ubuntu comes with PCB 20110918, compiled 
2012-Jan-03.

- Had 2 crashes within a few hours, previous releases always worked 
flawlessly.

- Once I managed to get into a situation where I could neither pick nor 
draw lines. Couldn't reproduce this so far, a restart (with data loss) 
helped.

- A non-solvable problem so far is, I can't print or export PostScript 
from the command line. It produces invalid files. Doing the same from 
the GUI works well. A closer inspection showed, the CLI version contains 
a lot of decimal commas instead of decimal points. One line (of many 
lines) example:

CLI:
%%DocumentMedia: A4 595,27559 841,88976 0 "" ""

GUI:
%%DocumentMedia: A4 595.27559 841.88976 0 "" ""

Two questions:

- Is this printing problem known? It might be a locale problem, my 
locale is de_DE.UTF-8.

- How would one fix this in the Ubuntu packaging system. Such a 
malfunction will likely cost us users; upgrading to current git isn't an 
option for typical Ubuntu users.


Thanks for helping,
Markus

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