Dan Andersson wrote: > > On Monday 09 February 2009 21:20:02 william ehlers wrote: > > I have tried to update Kicad from the supplied 07/09/2007 version with > > absolutely no luck. I have a toshiba laptop with an AMD 64bit dual > > core processor and 4GB of memory running KDE4 desktop and Fedora 10 > > x86_64. When I have tried the precompiled versions by overwriting the > > old version my desktop crashes all the way back to the login screen. > > When I delete the 7/9/07 version and follow the instructions on the > > kicad website kicad does nothing the program does not come up at all. > > I see a small bouncing Kicad icon then it disappears with nothing > > happening. I have tried using the Windows version under wine which > > runs until I try PCBNEW and my computer reboots back to the login > > screen. I am not a software programmer so I haven't even tried the > > nightmare of compiling the source code. I used linux about 8 years ago > > and as I remember compiling code was a mind altering experience which > > never did work. Again I am not a software guy so problem is mine. > > > > Any and all help will be appreciated. > > AndyE > > Andy, > > I run the latest Ubuntu on mydual core AMD 64 without any glitches > whatsoever. > > How did you install KiCad? > > I use version kicad-full-version-2008-08-25c-final.tgz and that one is > working. > > I unpacked it from /usr/local so the KiCad installation is > /usr/local/kicad...... > > See what it complains about by starting a terminal window and type > /usr/local/kicad/bin/kicad > > Look for error messages and try to trace them. > > Fedora doesn't feellike the - hrmm, majority installation Ubuntu is biut > should still work. > > Fedora used to bite me in the past as they screwed up the libraries at > updates. I couldn't have that so out went Fedora. > > //Dan, M0DFI > > It is looking for libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 which resides in /usr/lib64. It looks like kicad wants this file in /usr/lib. just for grins I copied the lib file from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib and got an error stating libgtk-x11.x11-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class : ELFCLASS64. So it's definetly the file it wants so I guess I need to find the 32 bit version of the libgtk*** file and put it in /usr/lib. Thanks for the run it in a terminal tip. That helped alot and I will remember it for the future.
AndyE
