Re: gEDA-user: New version of gEDA Suite availabl

[joeft <joeft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
....

> I would be interested in
> hearing experiences of other distro users.

I tried the install on a SuSe 9.3. A previous installation has been done 
on this system so many of the "system" packages were already present.

Here's what I found --

12/14/06

- Having the install forced to run as a user other than root seems to be a
 constraint.   Not everyone wants to put the install files and 
executables in
 ${HOME}/geda-install.  This approach makes it very difficult to put it 
in a
 more universally accessible location like /usr/local/bin.  (Think of a 
system
 with more than one user.)

- gtkwave install breaks with this error:

Failure executing command "tar -zxvf gtkwave-3.0.7.tar.gz", ReturnCode = 2
In ErrorQuitWindow_10.

which in the verbose log seems to be caused by:

tar: gtkwave-3.0.7/man: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: gtkwave-3.0.7/man: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xrwx: Operation not 
permitted
tar: gtkwave-3.0.7: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
(repeated several times)

Having the gtkwave installation fail in this manner probably shouldn't 
kill the
whole installer.

- gnucap would not build.  Since I don't need it at the moment I skipped 
over
 it.

- pcb doesn't install.  The logic for checking for libjpeg and libgif still
 appears to be broken.  It appears that if you have support already in 
place
 for png *and* gif *and* jpeg the install will finish.  Otherwise it will
 fail.  I haven't found a way to pass in a flag to the installer from the
 beginning to tell it to disable lesstif, gif, png, or jpeg so that it can
 succeed in some form.


Joe T




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