I believe your install problems go away if you use Stuart's ISO image. I have installed (painlessly) using the last few releases.
(* jcl *) On 9/9/05, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Would it be possible to do following changes to improve usability? About > 3 people now want to help the Ronja project and explaining them gEDA and > PCB is a pain in the ass. They get stuck on something every couple of > hours when trying to work with gEDA and PCB. > > All contributions to Ronja are in Eagle, because people say "sorry, gEDA > is unusable for me". > > So Ronja has unofficial RX TMD PCB, unofficial RX SMD PCB, unofficial > TX TMD PCB, unofficial TX SMD PCB, unofficial CPLD Twister, but these > cannot be merged into the development, because the former 4 were > designed in Protel and the latter one in Eagle, because gEDA is pain > in the ass for them to learn and use. > > Would it be possible to do the following changes to increase usability? > 1) Merge PCB into gEDA so it gets installed all at once. If installing > PCB is an issue, add --disable-pcb into ./configure > 2) Make the install process one ./configure && make && make install if > possible. Installing gEDA fresh always takes me like 1-2 days because > it's like 20 libraries where you have to guess the versions correctly > and if you fail, you have to retry etc. > 3) Make a gEDA install guide for trained monkeys, so they don't have to > spend 2 hours figuring out what combinations of libraries they should > download, and then it won't work for them anyway, because it's > PITA to install gtk 2.2 in debian > 4) Update the PCB documentation so the format is described correctly > (one needed to edit solderstrip symbol source but I told him this URL > describes the internal format, but sorry, it's obsolete and not true > anymore, there is different number of fields, they are shuffled > around, and the resolution is now also 100 times higher) > 5) Put into PCB library that every time you select a package, it writes > "put bla_bla into footprint= attribute if you want this package in > gschem" > 6) If 5 is not possible, put a trained monkey algorithm into PCB doc > which would enable one to translate PCB library entry as seen on > the library menu into footprint= attribute. > 7) Make gEDA and PCB stop complaining 100 error messages every time the > version changes slightly. It's like Microsoft Word - even two > neighbour versions are mutually incompatible. > > Thanks, > > CL< >
