Re: gEDA-user: installing geda tools on laptop

["vsrk sarma" <vsrksiva@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Thanks a lot. Installation using your suggestions went smoothly.
   will come after some practice with the installation.

   On 11/11/08, Peter Clifton <[1]pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

     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,
     [2]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
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References

   1. mailto:pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx
   2. http://1.4.0/
   3. mailto:geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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