gEDA-user: Am I to fool to install gEDA?

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:51:33 +0100
From: Manfred Eggersdorf <manfred.eggersdorf@xxxxxx>

Hello!
My Name is Manfred and I'm not a gEDA user yet - unfortunately not.
Because it seems to be that I'm to foolisch to compile and install gEDA.

But perhaps first to my knoledge:
I worked some times with PCB-CAD-Tools, but only under Windows.
My Linux knoledge is more basic then expended.

So I loaded the .iso file down, burned this as CD and tried to install 
under Suse 9.0.

First problem is, that the make-fails for the PCB-Part for a reason I 
don't understand.

But - perhaps are my librarys to old - so I've got first some  - hopeful 
- simple questions:

1.
How do I install the Librarys, which I took here from this homepage as a 
zip-file.
Simply unpack and...??

2. If the installation finished, I was asked to set the $PATH 
environment and the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment to the correct folder. 
Here my dos-knoledge does'nt help - how should I do this?

Perhaps somebody is so kind to tell me this...put into simple words  - 
for less experienced Linux-User ;-)
Many thanks!
Manfred