Re: gEDA-user: geda tarball

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:22 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008 20:35:08 Ian Chapman wrote:
> > Thanks for trying Peter but I think I'm way off the normal path I'll try
> > getting the Ubuntu package manager to restore the origina.  Regards Ian.

Give me a couple of days, and I'll send you some un-official 1.3.1 .debs
if you want to try running latest gEDA, with icons etc... (This is if
you don't mind beta-testing for us).

> At your level of Linux expertise, I think that's recommended.  I'll try and 
> put together a guide to installing gEDA from sources for newcomers to Linux.  
> It's definitely not as easy as it should be!
> 
> Can anyone who knows Debian/Ubuntu stuff suggest how he can install 1.2.1 
> packages on Gutsy?

Not without rebuilding the debian source packages. I'll have a word with
the Ubuntu maintainer and see if he objects to me providing back-ported
Gutsy versions from a PPA, or whether it is something which could even
be done officially with gutsy-backports.

> Sorry about the difficulties you've had.  I hope it hasn't put you off too 
> badly.

Likewise.. gEDA has a lot of components, and is not always trivial to
build. I'm very sure you've got close here.. but as others have said,
there may be minor issues with install paths etc.

If I can get you some newer .deb packages, this is clearly the way
forward in that it will keep everything nicely managed with the
distribution's correct install paths etc..

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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