On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:27 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Ian, > > It looks like you have several old versions of gEDA on your box. > > The gEDA Suite is a bunch of different programs supported by a common > link-library (the equivalent of a DLL). You need to upgrade *all* the > programs *and* the link library at the same time. If you don't, then > you will have problems similar to the one you are having now. What's > happening is that some random copy of gschem is trying to link some > other random copy of libgeda, and they are not compatible. > > To make your life easier, you should do this: > > 1. Remove *all* old gEDA stuff from your machine. This includes any > copies of libgeda you may have in your various system libraries > (/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, or whatever prefix you used when installing > gEDA in teh first place). Also remove any of the old programs like > gschem, gattrib, gnetlist, etc. Done > > 2. Grab *all* source tarballs from the gEDA website. I have put them under desktop/Source_gEDA. The makefile came out as text in firefox so I pasted it into gedit and saved it in Source_gEDA as Makefile.
I have gtk and guile1.6 but I do not see glib in Ubuntu package manager. So I'm on hold for now. > > 3. Follow the instructions on the gEDA website about building gEDA > from scratch. Build and install *all* source tarballs, in exactly the > order which the top-level makefile wants you to use. (This will > happen automatically if you use gEDA's top level Makefile.) > > 4. When you install the new stuff, I recommend you install it in its > own directory, /usr/local/geda, say. Set the --prefix to the path you > want to user. Then, the next time you want to upgrade, you just need > to delete and then recreate the directory. I'm not clear when and what I key in to do this? > > 5. After installing all teh new stuff, make sure you point your $PATH > and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the new directories /usr/local/geda/bin, and > /usr/local/geda/lib, respectively. Again please excuse me but where and how do I do that. Do I need to edit an rc file? Sorry to be new to linux Regards Ian. > > Cheers, > > Stuart > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Ian Chapman wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:54 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > >>> 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. > >> > >> Ok, perhaps I misunderstood the first time... do you still have the icon > >> from the Ubuntu installed version? > > > >> Try running "gschem" directly from a terminal window, and see how that > >> works. It may print some useful debugging output if it fails. > > gschem: error while loading shared libraries: libgeda.so.31: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > >> > >> I'm wondering if runing "sudo ldconfig" may be required after installing > >> libgeda. > > No change > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > geda-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
