Re: gEDA-user: installing geda tools on laptop

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:56 +0530, vsrk sarma wrote:
> Hi
>    I tried to install GEDA tools on my laptop; first I tried on Ubuntu
>    8.10 and then Fedora 9.
>     In both events some components eg. ngspiceui are not installing. In
>    ubuntu the has not tried to install missing dependencies,
>    where with Fedora missing dependencies  are installed by geda suite.
>     Yet I had to continue without  installing  packages like  ngspiceui.
>    Suite CD download is ok as I could fully install the package on 32bit
>    desktop.
>    My laptop is HP nx6115 using AMD 64bit Turion Processor. Are there any
>    limitations because of this? I am thankful to anyone giving useful
>    suggestions.

Ok, first of all, don't use the CD install suite. It is really old, and
has not been updated in a long time. I don't think there ought to be any
limitations due to the 64bit machines, we use gEDA on our 64 bit AMD
servers (Running SuSE), serving hundreds of thin-client PCs.

Ubuntu 8.10 comes with "almost" the very latest release of gEDA, 1.4.0.
(There is also 1.4.1 which fixes a few bugs, but that is not in Ubuntu).

To install gEDA on Ubuntu, you want something like:

sudo apt-get install geda
sudo apt-get install pcb-gtk

(That ought to pull in individual pieces such as libgeda, geda-gschem,
geda-gattrib etc..)

You mentioned ngspiceui (actually, it is "gspiceui"), try:

sudo apt-get install gspiceui
sudo apt-get install gnucap

ngspice isn't available in Debian due to a whole host of licensing
issues which probably can't ever be resolved.


As you now have Fedora installed (by the sounds of it), perhaps someone
else could step up and offer the equivalent commands to get Fedora's
RPMs for the various parts of the suite.

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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