Re: gEDA-user: Export gerber crash

[Ian Chapman <ichapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-22-11 at 00:10 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:38 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote:
> > Many thanks Peter for the offer.  I would like to accept.

Hi Peter,  I have pulled your files over.  The first two I simply pasted
into gedit and saved with the original name.  I came unstuck unpacking
the sources.  I have pasted into the e-mail from the terminal the
results of "ls" and the unpack please see below.  Regards Ian.
> 
> > 	I would be really pleased to try your .deb file.  I think that would be
> > simpler than updating Ubuntu and being frustrated by plugins and print
> > drivers again.
> 
> Its not going to work out of the box, I think you'll need to compile it.
> I've put the debian package bits online at:
> 
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcb/pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcb/pcb_20070912-1CUED2.diff.gz
> 
> You will also need the PCB sources "pcb-20070912.tar.gz" from here:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73743&package_id=73907&release_id=539173
> 
> Rename this file "pcb_20070912.orig.tar.gz"
> 
> Make a directory for sources, and put the above files in it.
> 
> Start off by getting some packages necessary to build:
> apt-get install build-essential intltool dpkg-dev fakeroot dpatch libgd2-xpm-dev
> 
> And to get extra stuff for PCB:
> apt-get build-dep pcb
> (Although this is not the new version's build depends, it will be close)
> 
> >From the sources directory, unpack the sources with this command:
> dpkg-source -x pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc
===================================================================================
stanley82@Ian-desktop:~/PCB_sources$ ls pcb_20070912-1CUED2.diff.gz
pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc  pcb_20070912.orig.tar.gz  Peter's_instructions
stanley82@Ian-desktop:~/PCB_sources$ 
stanley82@Ian-desktop:~/PCB_sources$ 
stanley82@Ian-desktop:~/PCB_sources$ dpkg-source -x
pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc
gpg: Signature made Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:46:16 PM EST using RSA key ID
3BC3653D
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: error: file pcb_20070912.orig.tar.gz has size 3836056
instead of expected 3836486
stanley82@Ian-desktop:~/PCB_sources$ 


===================================================================================
> 
> cd into the unpacked directory (I think it will be pcb-20070912 or
> something similar)
> 
> and start the build process:
> dpkg-buildpkg -us -uc -rfakeroot
> 
> If it complains about missing build dependencies, apt-get install them
> 
> Once the build process finishes, "cd .." out of the source dir, and
> you'll find the .deb file "pcb_20070912-1CUED2_i386.deb"
> 
> Install that with:
> dpkg --install pcb_20070912-1CUED2_i386.deb
> 
> You may wish to dpkg --install the attached
> electronics-menu_0.1.0_all.deb too. It adds an "Electronics" category to
> the main menu. This is pretty architecture independent, as its only
> config files - so you ought not to need to rebuild it.
> 
> 
> Let me know where along the build process this breaks, as I'm bound to
> have forgotten something!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> 
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