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Re: gEDA-user: Fedora Core 5 installation notes
On 7/29/06, Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Mark Rages wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Patrick Doyle <wpdster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Are there folks on this list who are using FC5? If so, what is the
>> recommended approach for installing the gEDA suite on an FC5 box?
>>
>> I am asking because I tried the most straightforward approach
>> (installing from the CD) and ran into a few problems. So far, they
>> don't seem too insurmountable, but I've learned through bitter
>> experience to start asking questions sooner, rather than later.
>
> Grab RPMs courtesy of Wojciech Kazubski
> http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/geda.html
>
> Then install them with yum like this:
(etc. . . . .)
The one thing I'll say about this is that you only get gEDA/gaf
(i.e. schematic capture & netlisting). If you want PCB, verilog,
spice, gnucap, etc, then you need to grab those packages (hopefully
with RPMs) elsewhere.
Wojciech also has PCB:
http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/pcb.html
And gerbv:
http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/gerbv.html
And spice / gnucap:
http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/spice.html
For a while, I was mirroring the files in a yum repository. I think
it would be better for Wojciech to do this. I may ask him agin --
last time there were some technical issues IIRC.
The vision of my Install CD is that you get *all* the gEDA-allied
programs in one convenient download, and (in principle) they are all
installed for you automatically.
To a yum or apt user, downloading an ISO is a sub-optimal way to
install software.
I have used your CD install before (a year ago perhaps).
My impression was that it seemed somewhat brittle and would run for a
long time and then fail hopelessly. I remember thinking that it would
be more convenient to have a big Makefile instead of a frozen Python
script. This would make it easier to fix a problem and resume
compiling where you left off. I'm sorry this criticism isn't more
constructive.
By the way, before somebody again extolls the virtues of their
favorite apt-get, yum, pkg-get or whatever, here's my challenge: Why
don't you show us how easy it is by building an .iso with all gEDA
Suite tools aboard? I'd personally be happy to put such a beast onto
the gEDA download page. Even if the .iso only worked for one distro,
I think it would make a lot of users happy! Let's see some action
instead of advice!
Like I said above, the proper means of distribution would be a
repository rather than an .iso. Wojciech Kazubski almost has
everything together. I will email him again about this.
Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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