Last time, When I tried to install gEDA20050820, I also have the bad experience to install GSpiceUI. I cannot install it from tarball, even the necessary requirement was fuifilled.
This time I have successfuly installted GSpiceUI after reinstall Fedora Core4 several times, but I can not install Gwave anymore. I hate to reinstall OS again, but I don't whether I have another choice to make it work. Anyway, I get the GSpiceUI work this time in my FC4, perhaps you can check the INSTALL file with GSpiceUI to see what you don't have in you OS. I sincerely hope that gEDA can provide one piece of RPM which contain every components of the gEDA suite, which will make the life easier. On 2/8/06, Richard Rasker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello fellow *nix & electronics users, > > I've been quite a happy PCB user for the past few years, and now I > decided to install the whole gEDA suite. Most things seem to work OK, > but several issues crept up which I couldn't resolve so far. > > Some information in advance: > > gEDA version: cd-rom ISO image, version 20060124 > Linux distribution: Mandriva 2006 PowerPack (kernel 2.6.12-12mdk) > > By the way, I didn't actually burn the ISO image to CD-ROM, but simply > mounted it as a loop device: > > mount -o loop geda-install-20060124.iso [mount_point] > > Perhaps this is a useful tip to be included into the INSTALL file? > > > Now about the problems I encountered. > > 1. The GSpiceUI build is aborted with the following error message: > > /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.0.1/../../../libwx_gtk2_core-2.6.so: > undefined reference to `pango_x_get_context' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [../bin/gspiceui] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/razz/electronics/geda-sources/gspiceui/gspiceui-v0.8.08/src' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > Failure executing command make, ReturnCode = 2 > > > Apparently, pango_x_get_context is deprecated and no longer supported. > Is there a way to work around this problem? I was really looking forward > to the GUI version of GSpice, and this is a bit of a disappointment. > > > 2. PCB's print command seems quite buggy in PS/EPS format; George M. > Gallant, Jr. has already reported some of the the problems on this > mailing list, but so far without a reply or a remedy: > > "Printing with "Mirror image" is identical, except for the time stamp, > as a straight print. It also leaves slivers of white at thick bevel > junctions. Printing with a home-brew print utility works correctly so > it is not the printer. > I was hoping that the mirror image would just flip one side so that > the print would be usable with double sided iron on transfers." > > A PS file looks OK on screen, but is printed with straight line endings, > resulting in the mentioned slivers of white. The EPS format has its own > problems, but I'm not sure PCB is at fault here: when printed, no paper > margins are taken into account, so that a few millimeters are missing > from the left and lower edges. This can be remedied by adding a ten > millimeter blank edge at the left and the bottom, but that's hardly an > elegant solution. > > Also, I miss the mirror image functionality; I often make single-sided > pcb's with transparency sheets, and I'd like the toner layer to rest > directly onto the pcb. > > I can render the (E)PS file in the Gimp, and do the mirroring and > printing from there, but in the desired 1200 dpi quality, the file > becomes huge, and every manipulation takes forever. > > Other image processing tools such as ImageMagick's convert -flip can > mirror the (E)PS file much faster, but the results can only be described > as totally horrible. > > And finally, after printing an inverted positive/negative image, PCB > won't print a noninverted image any more until it's shut down and > restarted. > > > Can someone point me in the direction of a solution for these issues? I > can live with PCB's printing quirks, but I'd really like to get GSpiceUI > to work. > > Thanks in advance, regards, > > Richard Rasker > > > > >
