Re: gEDA-user: Help request

[kmk <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:

> FC and SuSE come with all required
> software already on the disks (although you do need to read the gEDA
> FAQ to find out that some of the required packages aren't installed by
> default).

If I read Al correctly, this is exactly like the situation with default
Ubuntu. Note, that synaptic is the recommended, user friendly package
install GUI of Ubuntu and any other Debian based distro for that matter.


> Therefore, from a customer-support standpoint, Ubuntu loses
> to FC and SuSE when it comes to installing gEDA, period.

Debian wins hands down on that task: It comes with binary packages of
geda and pcb included on the DVDs. Just choose it in your favorite
package tool (dselect, aptitude, apt-get, or as you might have guessed,
synaptic) and install. Worked for me like a charme.
If you insist to build it yourself, get the sources from the Debian
repository. The package manager will make sure, that you also install
all the required development packages. If the version in stable/sarge is
too old for you (v20050313), get it from testing/etch (v20060123).

Only if you want to install that red hot version that was just from the
CVS-tree, you have to look outside the Debian distro. But we were
talking about newbie, were we? I wouldn`t recommend the latest bleeding
edge versions of any application to them in the first place.

Ubuntu is a close relative to Debian. It uses the same package
maintainance infrastructure. So I would suggest to Ubuntu users to
install geda binaries from the Debian distro. The hardest part is to add
the url of the repository or the Debian-DVD to the config files of
synaptic. In case of the DVD you don`t even need to touch an editor. It
is already in the menus of synaptic.

Can anyone with a recent version of Ubuntu give this a try and report
the experience?


> I'd suggst that the Ubuntu enthusiasts add a little HOWTO to the gEDA
> FAQ describing how to set up Ubuntu so the gEDA installer works on
> it. 

ack.
I will add the Debian version ---> copy-paste of my text above ;-)


> Alternately, they can describe how to install everything
> (including gEDA/gaf, PCB, and all that) using .deb packages. 

Are these the same deb packages as in the Debian distro?

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