On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:25:27PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Now you try to install gEDA & PCB from the current CD ROM. It turns > out you need to have the GTK developemnt libs. Bad news. But you go > out and install it. Then, the CD runs and you can begin designing. > > Now imagine what would happen if your installation fails again, this > time because you need Qt. What's Qt?!? You go to geda-user and ask.
In this case I think your installer CD should provide packages in the distro's format and use the correct tool to install them, and the relevant dependencies. I don't want unmanaged binaries or libraries installed on my system. > "It's another GUI library, different from GTK." To get it they say > "use apt-get". What's that, you wonder? In any event, you try it > out, but it turns out you don't have "apt-get" on your box either -- > it's an FC add-in. I'm confused. Getting Qt is no harder than getting GTK+. Your distribution will provide it. > That's why I cannot stress enough how important it is to forget your > whiz-bang technological solutions and focus on the user experience > instead. I can only speak for the Debian experience, but I can't imagine it getting much easier than going to your usual package manager and telling it to install the package "geda". As soon as it's downloaded and installed you're ready to run. This is possible on Fedora too. Add relevant entries to /etc/apt/sources.list then repeat as above. Write a shell script to automate this if you wish. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
