Re: gEDA-user: FC4 installation information

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

It looks like you did a "cp /mnt/cdrom/* ~/Desktop/geda", or something
like that, and then tried running the local copy.  The problem is that
the installer can't find the Glade files, probably because you didn't
copy the entire directory hierarchy present in the .iso.

Better is to d/l the entire CD onto disk and then burn it onto a
physical CD, and then mount it in the normal way.  (If you know what
you are doing, you can d/l the .iso and then mount the .iso file, but
if your a newbie this might be too complicated.) 

Run the installer this way:

From your home directory:

/mnt/cdrom/installer --log

(Or whever you have mounted the cdrom.)  This will dump a logfile
called Install.log into the local dir.  

Stuart



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> These are my installation experience ... :(
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> > lucasvo@lama:~/Desktop/geda$ sudo ./installer
> > Password:
> >=20
> > (installer.exe:9702): XML-CRITICAL **: Document is empty
> >=20
> >=20
> > (installer.exe:9702): XML-CRITICAL **: Start tag expected, '<' not
> found
> >=20
> >=20
> > (installer.exe:9702): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_string_free: assertion
> `string !=3D NULL' failed
> >=20
> > (installer.exe:9702): libglade-WARNING **: did not finish in
> PARSER_FINISH state
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "installer.py", line 4636, in ?
> >     LogWindow =3D GlobalTextWindow()
> >   File "installer.py", line 401, in __init__
> >     self.wTree =3D gtk.glade.XML (gladefile,windowname) # This creates
> the window tree.
> > RuntimeError: could not create GladeXML object
> > lucasvo@lama:~/Desktop/geda$
> >=20
> >=20
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> lucas=20
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> On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 17:30 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > A quick note:
> >=20
> > I put up a new Wiki page explaining how to install gEDA from the CD
> > onto FC4 (and FC3, 2, 1).  Folks having problems getting it to work
> > on FC4 are encouraged to look here:
> >=20
> > http://geda.seul.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=3Dgeda:installation
> >=20
> > I will get a set of notes pertainent to SuSE 9.3 up soon.  If other
> > people could write up their installation experiences on teh Wiki, that
> > would be a benefit to everybody.
> >=20
> > Stuart
> >=20
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