Re: gEDA-user: geda install on Ubuntu

["Ed & Angie S." <edangies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

Thanks for the quick response.

1.  Is it ok to have both libgtk2.0-dev and libgtk1.2-dev installed?
2. You are correct, g++ is not installed but will be shortly.
3.  I will install libgd2-xpm-dev

Ed


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Clifton" <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: geda install on Ubuntu


>
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:54 -0500, Ed & Angie S. wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> My initial email was lacking that I am trying to install from the gEDA
>> 20070221 CD.  My new Ubuntu machine will be my second gEDA installation 
>> and
>> I would like it to be the same version of gEDA as my original debian
>> machine.
>>
>> I thought the installer installed the dependencies the first time through
>> but I guess it didn't.   I have subsequently installed the following
>> packages using aptitude:
>
> It is always best to install the distributions version of these packages
> if possible. I'm not familiar with where the installer CD puts them, but
> it would have to be elsewhere than /usr/bin /usr/lib etc.. to avoid
> conflicts with ubuntu's package managed versions.
>
>> guile1.6-dev
>> libwxgtk2.8-dev
>> tcl8.4
>> tcl8.4-dev
>> tk8.4
>> tk8.4-dev
>> libgtk2.0-dev
>> libreadline5-dev
>> flex
>> bison
>> gperf
>> libjpeg62-dev
>>
>> I then re-ran the installer and geda/gaf seems to have installed ok. 
>> pcb,
>> ngspice, gnucap, icarus, and gspiceui are not installed correctly yet.  I
>> would like to get them all working but pcb is my critical issue for an
>> ongoing project.  I have attached the install.log and pcb config.log 
>> files.
>>
>> The installer no longer asks if I want to install any software so I'm 
>> hoping
>> I am far closer to working than I was previously.  However, the 
>> Install.log
>> file indicates that my machine is missing gtk-config.  I've found some
>> discussion on this issue but I'm still not sure what to do or if I need 
>> this
>> with libgtk2.0-dev installed.
>
> gtk-config was from back in the gtk-1.x days. It "might" be that the
> installer is trying to install an old app which wants it - in which
> case, try:
>
> sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev
>
>> For pcb, the error indicates that my gd installation does not include
>> support for jpeg.  For other programs the message "error trying to exec
>> 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory" seems to be a problem.  I
>> suspect I'm missing some required packages but I'm not sure what to 
>> install
>> to fix these problems.
>
> ok - next step for PCB, get hold of a copy of libgd which has jpeg
> support. I have libgd2-xpm-dev installed:
>
> sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
>
> with the cc1plus error, it looks like you might not have a C++ compiler
> installed. Try:
>
> sudo apt-get install g++
>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Let us know how it goes. Ubuntu takes a little bit of apt-get install
> bootstrapping to become a usable development platform, however its
> pretty good once you've got the required packages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter C.
>
>
>
>
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