> > > I use Kubuntu 5.10 and my installation is hence from the Ubuntu=20 > > > repositories.
> I don't suggest using ubuntu packages because a) they are old versions, > b) they don't have everything included(for e.g. gattrib). > > > You should search through the lists to see what prerequisite packages > > you need to install in order to use gEDA on Ubuntu. To do an install > > from the CD you will need to make sure you have the development > > libraries for a number of packages. The majority of complaints I see > > about gEDA these days come from people who have consumer-grade distros > > installed on their machines (SuSE 9.X personal, Fedora desktop, > > Ubuntu, etc.). The consumer-grade distros often leave off important > Complaints also come from gentoo and debian.=20 > > And ubuntu is very similar to debian, it isn't really much different, > except the gui. > > > header files and utilities used when compiling programs such as gEDA. > > Some even leave off gcc! The gEDA Suite CD installer tries to take > Yes this is correct, but sudo apt-get install gcc and you have it. Lukas -- Could you please create a quick list of things you had to do in order to build gEDA and PCB on Ubuntu? Something like: 0. Install Ubuntu with these packages added: foo, bar, baz 1. apt-get gcc 2. apt-get some_other_dependency 3. build gEDA/gaf 4. build pcb 5. etc. Thanks. > > care of some dependencies, but these consumer-grade distros are > > basically crippled when it comes to building software. Therefore, if > > you can find a pre-compiled version for Ubuntu, you might want to use > > that. =20 > > Also note that gEDA is a GTK applications, whereas Kubuntu is Qt > > (KDE). Therefore, you may need to even install the GTK stuff. > GTK is on every ubuntu... I mean that I'd bet that the GTK header files are missing on a vanilla Ubuntu install. I'd like to be wrong. > > If you have another machine, I'd suggest you load it up with Fedora 4 > > Workstation instead of horsing around with Kubuntu. > >=20 > There aren't any problems with ubuntu, at least with gnome if you > compile from sources. Can you create a quick procedure for our Ubuntu friend about what you did to make it work? Thanks, Stuart
