Re: gEDA-user: installation problem

[Olgierd Eysymontt <olgierd.eysymontt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart,
	After unistall wxGTK 2.4 and reinstall wxGTK 2.6 the installer is now
working, thanks a lot for your support.

Olgierd


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:23 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> 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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