Re: gEDA-user: Help

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:09 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> I start using gschem part of geda 20050313 version on Xandros os. It
> constantly when you list expect close the gschem leaving me with the
> unsaved portion to be reentered again, I know that this is an older
> version, but this version is the only version available from Xandros
> network.

There have been many bugs fixed since this version.

I can't advise about Xandros, or installing a newer version, but you
might like to try starting gschem from a terminal with:

G_SLICE=always-malloc gschem

This is known to work around an incompatibility between old versions of
gschem and newer versions of glib (One of the program libraries gschem
needs).

If at all possible, try and get a newer version of gEDA, as a few other
crashing bugs have since been fixed which won't be fixed by the above
command line.

[snip]

> I also try to install the debian version the one marked stable using
> the help of xandros network it did not install. Thank you in advanced 

As Wikipedia tells me Xandros is Debian based, it "might" be possible to
use pre-build .debs from Debian. (I don't know). It will probably depend
on which version of Debian Xandros is based on, and how far it deviated
from Debian.

What were the error messages when it failed to install, that might be of
use to anyone who might assist you.

Regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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