From: Olgierd Eysymontt <olgierd.eysymontt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: installation problem
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:48:13 +0000
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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