Gene, > First, total noob to gEDA.
I'm just slightly ahead of you here... I'll see if I can answer some of your questions. > The subject says it all I think. I've run gerbv and gEDA now, and > cannot find any loadable examples. Are there some? If you installed "geda-examples-20041228.tar.gz" there are several examples in there (gTAG, lightning_detector, ...) > Opening up firefox and finding the html docs, I have arrived > at that page of the gschem totorial where there are some > sample commands to check the install. > > That link is: > <file:///opt/geda-install/share/doc/geda-doc/gschem/node5.html> > and these 4 commands are to be issued: > libgeda-config --version > bash: libgeda-config: command not found > > gesym-config --version > bash: gesym-config: command not found This part of the documentation is obsolete. Your installation is likely okay. > Also, in grepping for the chip building blocks I'd need, none of > the 3 main chips '82c55', 'L298' or 'L297' I need seem to be present. That's simply because none of the existing gEDA users have had a need for these symbols. What I do in this case if find a symbol that is close to the one I need and modify it. > Are these downloadable from someplace, or do I need to write > first, the logic block descriptions etc for them? And if > I do write them, where can I upload them to share with > other potential users. http://www.geda.seul.org/tools/symbols/contrib.html > Thats enough dumb questions for one day I think. The only dumb question is the un-asked one ;) Cheers, Jean-Francois
