Re: gEDA-user: Installation on Ubuntu 5.10

[jens persson <jens@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugo Leeney wrote:

>I have been trying my best to get gEDA successfully installed on
>Ubuntu Linux for a while now. 
>  
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>From my point of view there are 2 problems. The first is that
>pkg-config is installed on my system but that gEDA can't find it. 
>
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> When I have allowed the installer to try install pkg-config
>as it wants to, it asks for my root password (Ubuntu uses sudo, so i
>give it my user name with root priveledges), and then it times out.
>  
>
Hello!

I think that you are right in that there's these two problems, When I
installed, i had the exact problem that the installer didn't find
pkg-config. I tried to fix the installer but ran out of patience and
installed  the tools manually (and shamefully never got around to file a
bug report).

Maybe we can talk Stuart into installing Ubuntu in his new installation
lab :-).

A way of getting past this type of problems is perhaps to have the
installer take arguments like --pkg-config=/usr/bin/pkg-config. This
might be useful for using a special version of gcc etc. also. The root
problem would be solved with --su=/usr/bin/sudo then.

Not offering a patch since I never fully understood the code in the
installer :-(.

Best
/jp

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