Re: gEDA-user: Beginner Confusion Resolved

[Tim Golden <timgolden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ineiev. Just want to close this out.

Your guess is probably correct, though I did install PCB, it was
installed through the debian distro (usr/bin) rather than
in /usr/local/bin. I took a copy off of sourceforge onto /usr/local and
things are working as Bill Wilson's tutorial presents. Without these
tutorials I'm afraid the cryptic nature of these tools would be too much
for my simple mind. Thanks so much Bill and any other contributors to
this level of documentation. 

Anyway, one hurdle down, and many more in my sight now to overcome.
These tools are not intuitive to a newbie, but I am beginning to see the
seriousness of their functionality, and the complexities which go into
their design. 

Perplexed...
 - Tim


On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 20:46 +0300, Ineiev wrote:
> On 12/26/09, Tim Golden <timgolden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have never used printed circuit board software before.
> >    http://www.gpleda.org/sources.html
> > claims that the development version is 1.5.4
> > and that the stable version is 1.6.0
> > Shouldn't the development version be a 1.7.x type of number based on a
> > stable 1.6?
> > I did download the 1.5.4 version and successfully built it but do not
> > seem to have the m4 element libraries so that I don't have resistor
> > footprints for instance. I've discovered this in working through Bill
> > Wilson's tutorial page
> 
> AFAIK M4 footprints are in a different package, PCB
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcb).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Ineiev
> 
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