Went there, done that. Let me quote from an E-mail I sent Sunday, after two hard working nights (as an newbie): So, my adventure of installing gEDA on Ubuntu has a happy ending. I was all about the standard default packages Ubuntu is using by default. The main reason it was automake1.4 installed together with automake1.9 and not removed. When checked with automake --version it was reported as version 1.4 Now I need to learn how to install the remaining parts of the whole package. I was able to summarize and create a small setup program for automatic installation of gEDA from CVS on a basic fresh Ubuntu. It is quite easy I suspect to make small changes for any other Linux flavor. It is working on both Ubuntu i386 and AMD64-K8 and could be a friendly option for a lot of new users like me. Just open the executable file and replace all over my default PATH: /home/work/programs/gEDA with your personal preference. Note: just be careful when you replace the special line: sed -i 's/prefix?=\$(HOME)\/geda/prefix?=\/home\/work\/programs\/gEDA/' Makefile to keep the required added back-slashes in front of any special character. One more thing: I was in hell and back a few times and I was wasting a lot of time over the trivial mater of PATH. See http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2793 Quote: "I think ubuntu carry debian heritage regarding PATH definition. It is overwritten by every daemon, program, layer ( cron, bash, login, pam_env all happily overwrite each other settings and especially administrator ones)." End quote I figure out a way to overcome this particular problem, it is implemented on my setup program. I am calling the geda program not relaying on the default PATH management system, but exporting in the calling procedure any required variable. I thing this is not the single possible way but this is what I could come up with and it is working. And you can see the attached "setup" file... Adrian Nania -----Original Message----- From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kmk Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:14 AM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Help request 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? ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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