On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:59:54AM -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Over the past few years I've been experimenting and attempting to perfect
> a universal binary distribution of the gEDA Suite for i386 Linux.  I think
> I finally have something that should work for at least one other person
> than me.  Several points:
> 
> * "Universal" means that is should run on any i386 Linux distribution
>   that was released after 2001.  
> 
> * You shouldn't have to install any required gEDA dependencies.
>   You will need at least X installed and configured correctly.
> 
> * You won't have to build anything and you should be able to just run
>   the programs "out-of-the-box".   That's the theory at least.
> 
> * Included is a trivial shell based installer which should work on most
>   people's system.
> 
> * Note, this binary distribution is highly experimental.  I will remove
>   it after a while and eventually replace it with something that should
>   work equally well or better (refactored and with newer versions of
>   the various program included).
> 
> I'm sending out this e-mail because I would like people to try it out and
> let me know if it works for you.  I do expect there to be quirks here
> and there, so please report those as well.

It seems to work with fedora core 6 x86_64. I Haven't tested much, but all
the programs start as expected and can open existing files.
Ray Warren


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