On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 19:39 -0800, Jan Van Kort wrote: > I'm trying to install geda scheme onto debian etch. I found a geda > directory under home, but there is no item found under the application > pull-down menu. I've un-installed and re-installed and tried installing > various other stuff thinking maybe a dependancy didn't install or that > maybe an unlisted dependancy isn't installed.
How have you got the gEDA / gschem code? Installed with "apt-get install geda" Build from the release tarballs at geda.seul.org? Build from our source-code repository at git.gpleda.org? > So I guess the main question is: where is the file that starts the geda > program installed and what is it's name? That depends on the above. Distribution packaged builds will install into /usr/..., and the binary your looking for (which will be on the path) is "gschem" Start it from a terminal. If you built gEDA from sources, then it will have ended up in either /usr/local/... (in which case, its probably on the path, and starting with "gschem" from a terminal will work), or under "geda" in your home directory. It sounds as though this is the case from your comment that you've got a "geda" directory in your home-dir. You'll need to have some environment variables setup to launch the programs. I put this in my ~/.bashrc to run when bash starts: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pcjc2/geda/lib:/home/pcjc2/geda/lib/gnucap:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=/home/pcjc2/geda/bin:$PATH export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/pcjc2/geda/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH (Only the first two are needed for running, the third is needed for compiling gEDA). After this (closing the terminal and re-opening it), you'll be able to run "gschem". Other programs of interest are "gattrib" "gsch2pcb" "gnetlist", and there are several others for specific tasks. > Anybody have a suggestion as to what I may have to do to get geda to > show up in the menu's? Only the latest release and development code provides menu entries, icons and file-associations. That is the 1.3.0 version and upwards. (Only 1.3.0 exists at the moment). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
