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Re: gEDA-user: FWD: Testing request for a binary distribution for the gEDA Suite
Hello Ales,
this binary distribution runs fine on my lot of years old linux machine (based on Suse 8.1, the first gtk release i ever could try), at least gschem and pcb
which i tried !
Michael
Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [[ Below is a msg I should have also sent to geda-user. Thanks for any
> feedback. -Ales ]]
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
> To: geda-dev@xxxxxxxx
> From: Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: gEDA-dev: Testing request for a binary distribution for the gEDA
> Suite
>
> Hi,
>
> Over the past few years I've been experimenting and attempting to perfect
> a universal binary distribution of the gEDA Suite for i386 Linux. I think
> I finally have something that should work for at least one other person
> than me. Several points:
>
> * "Universal" means that is should run on any i386 Linux distribution
> that was released after 2001.
>
> * You shouldn't have to install any required gEDA dependencies.
> You will need at least X installed and configured correctly.
>
> * You won't have to build anything and you should be able to just run
> the programs "out-of-the-box". That's the theory at least.
>
> * Included is a trivial shell based installer which should work on most
> people's system.
>
> * Note, this binary distribution is highly experimental. I will remove
> it after a while and eventually replace it with something that should
> work equally well or better (refactored and with newer versions of
> the various program included).
>
> I'm sending out this e-mail because I would like people to try it out and
> let me know if it works for you. I do expect there to be quirks here
> and there, so please report those as well.
>
> Temporary download location:
> ftp://geda.seul.org/pub/geda/misc/gedasuite-20080104.tar.bz2
>
> Size:
> 11990608 bytes (~11 Mbytes)
>
> md5sum:
> ba3185c780152b2c9f99795ad246c818 gedasuite-20080104.tar.bz2
> Please verify the checksum before running any of the programs.
> (Run: md5sum gedasuite-20080104.tar.bz2 and compare).
>
> Included gEDA Suite programs in this experimental binary distribution:
>
> - gEDA/gaf PRERELEASE1-1.3.1
> This is a complete prerelease of 1.3.1 which is available in the
> git repository. The real 1.3.1 will be release later this week.
>
> - gspiceui 0.8.90
> An older version of gspiceui that I happen to have handy.
> There will be an HTML encoding error when this program is
> run, but the GUI should come up. No guarantees beyond that
> (the simulators are not installed). I am including this in
> this experimental dist since it is written in C++ and has a
> non-trivial GUI using wxWidgets/GTK.
>
> - pcb 20070912
> I did notice that the log window and others start up a little
> small, but pcb should run fine. Also gsch2pcb should work as
> well. Please test that too.
>
> - Other programs will be added if people have some measurable
> success with the above non-trivial programs.
>
> To install:
>
> 0) Download gedasuite-20080104.tar.bz2 from the above address.
>
> 1) Untar the gedasuite-20080104.tar.bz2 somewhere:
>
> cd somewhere
> tar xvfj gedasuite-20080104.tar.bz2
>
> 2) cd gedasuite-20080104
>
> 3) ./install.sh
>
> 4) Answer the two questions (desired installdir and confirm)
>
> 5) cd installdir/bin (or add installdir/bin to your PATH)
>
> 6) Run ./gschem or ./pcb or ./gattrib or ./gspiceui or anything
> else in the bin directory.
>
> Please try it out and let me know if any problems running the programs.
> Thank you,
>
> -Ales
>
> PS. All source tarballs and/or repository versions for this binary
> distribution are available on the gEDA website.
>
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