Re: gEDA-user: installation problem

[Olgierd Eysymontt <olgierd.eysymontt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart,
I've used your installer in the past with good results, this time the
journal follows:

1. first try, the installer wants to install wxGTK, ask for root
password and dies

2. I install wxGTK myself (by emerge -U wxGTK (the gentoo way)) and try
again, no luck, the installer still needs to install wxGTK, ask for
password and die.

All the install process was made like normal user, any clue ?

Thanks Stuart,

Olgierd


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:51 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Why don't you try a different approach?  You can download the latest
> gEDA stuff as an .iso with a bundled installer from here:
> 
> http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/
> 
> It's the first item in the second list.
> 
> Follow the instructions, and the suite will be installed using an
> install wizard.  Note that this version of the CD is very recent; I
> put it up so that folks could test it out before we put it on the
> main gEDA site.  It incorporates the latest gEDA/gaf, as well as
> ngspice, pcb, and other goodies.
> 
> Please let me know how the installer works for you.  I am soliciting
> feedback from users during this testing period.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hi,     
> >  I'm trying to install the latest geda released some days ago (with the
> > buildall.sh script) in a gentoo machine and I've found some extrange
> > behaviors in the installer asking for sources packs when the programs
> > are installed, more specifically: I have installed pkg-config, gettext,
> > freetype but I had to download them again and put the tar.gz files in
> > the geda dir for the installer to work.
> > 
> > Is that because a version mismatch ?, does the installer need the always
> > these source packages ?
> > 
> > Besides that, the installer needs docbook2pdf which was very difficult
> > to find and I don't know if the installation I did was correct because I
> > think it was replaced for 'docbook2ps --pdf' or something like that.
> > 
> > Anyway, I were able to get almost all the mentioned packages, but the
> > big problem is render-0.8.tar.gz, anybody knows where to get it ? it
> > seems to be obsolete (I did found some rpm's for Redhat 6.1 !!)
> > 
> > I'm now trying the cvs version and trying to compile manually the
> > packages one by one.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Olgierd
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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