On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:45 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:01 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote: > > I am in the process of updating my gschem tools to 1.2.0 > > stable. ./configure reported guile not found so I got guile 1.6 from > > the ubuntu package manager. That was not accepted so I pulled in 1.8 > > that was okay but I was missing libgeda so I pulled that in and that > > took out guile 1.8 but left 1.6. now it reports > > In "theory", it should work with 1.6 or 1.8. You need the guile-1.?-dev > package to build. Ubuntu only offers 1.6 or 1.8dev > > > checking for LIBGEDA... no > > configure: error: libgeda detection error: Requested 'libgeda >= > > 20070902' but version of libgeda is 20070626 > > > > So I pulled in the tarball libgeda 1.2.1 and ./configure was okay sudo > > make did a lot of work and seems okay and sudo make install too. > > In general, running the first stage "make" as root is not needed, and > represents an un-necessary security risk. (It can harm building some > packages IIRC). > > If should be sufficient to do: > > make > sudo make install > > > Back to gschem1.2.0 sudo ./configure okay sudo make okay sudo make > > install okay. > > Same comments about make, and in _this_ case, I can verify it will be OK > to mix versions. (gschem 1.2.0 _will_ work with libgeda 1.2.1, however > it is not in general recommended). > > > So lets give it a try. Applications Education GNU EDA schematic editor > > and NOTHING. After all that I have lost gschem. I guess it is > > somewhere on my disk. > > I don't recall where your previous version had come from... apt-get > install geda-gschem? If so, you probably had a menu entry from the > Debian package. Ubuntu Gutsy > > If you are willing to try the 1.3.1 packages (which are precursors to > the 1.4.0 release), you will get this all setup at install time for you, > including menu entries and file associations. I'll try to find it, it's not on the geda download page? > > > Situation I'm not able to invoke gschem I guess I can always reinstall > > from Ubuntu package manager but I'm sure it's something silly that I've > > done. Any help greatly appreciated Ian. > > Not something silly, just that we didn't install menu icons until later > than 1.2.x versions. > > Assuming geda and libgeda are installed on your path (/usr/local/.. > say), then you should just be able to drop in a menu entry with 1.2.x if > you want. I've attached some files. They won't pickup icons though. I can see gEDA in /usr/local/share (plus pcb, pcb20070912,gerbv) but not libgeda ???? One of my linux low level skills yet to be developed is how to drop from an e-mail into a directory (win98 it's easy) without having to resort to unix "sudo mv old new etc"; essentially how do I "sudo drag and drop"? > > You can drop these in /usr/local/share/applications/ > or ~/.local/share/applications/ (if you just want them for your user) > > Then update the applications database: > > sudo update-desktop-database /usr/local/share/applications > or update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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