Re: gEDA-user: Questions on downloading and installing gnucap and gwave

[al davis <ad151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 November 2007, Robert Butts wrote:
> When extracting gwave, should I extract it to: usr/share/?

No.

When you unpack a source tarball, do it in a place you can work 
on it, not a public place like /usr/share.

Usually, you do "./configure" then "make".  Then try it where it 
is.  To install it is usually "sudo make install".

I didn't check this one, but most by default install 
in /usr/local   ..  This means the parts are put 
in /usr/local/bin , /usr/local/share , or whatever.

There are differences of opinion on where applications should be 
installed.  Usually the distribution you are using has made 
some decisions, and you should stick to that.

For Linux, it is most common that packages managed by the 
package manager go in /usr  
(meaning /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /use/share .....)
and you should install non-managed packages in /usr/local.  This 
is deliberately a different place from the managed packages.


A warning on gwave ....  It requires guile 1.6.  It does not 
work with guile 1.8.  Do "guile --version" to verify that.

If you try to use 1.8, the messages it gives are not 
particularly useful.


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