Re: gEDA-user: installation problem

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Oligierd,

One question:  Did you let your screensaver run while the install was
running? 

I just tried running the installer on my machine, and forcing it to
re-install wxGTK.  It seems to have died after your machine died in
the build.

I am wondering if the screen saver interfers with the PyExpect
session, which runs the install of root-permission packages.

I also upgraded my Python installation recently, and I wonder if
something funny happened in the upgrade . . . . .

Thanks for the info about your screensaver.

Stuart


> 
> 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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