In which case there is a difference between the tarballs and whoever build the deb packages.
Both the tarballs: kicad-2009-02-16-final-UBUNTU_8.10.tgz kicad-2009-02-16-final-CENTOS_4.4.tgz Have the same structure and the install text gives the destination as /usr/local/... for both So Sysadmin beware :-) Not a huge problem providing users know about the differences. Andy On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:40:05 +0200 Dimitris Lampridis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:05:49 +0000 > Andy Eskelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Check your install package very carefully. > > > > The kicad libs and modules are normally under /usr/local/kicad/share > > In there there are dirctories, one library and one for modules. > > > > If an ubuntu package is installing files under /usr/local, then it is > violating very basic principles of .deb package management, and I > highly doubt that. > > I use Debian and everything goes under /usr/share/kicad (apart from > documentation that goes under /usr/share/doc/kicad) > > And here's the proof that the same is true for Ubuntu as well: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/all/kicad-common/filelist > http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/i386/kicad/filelist > > So, as long as you keep your modified kicad installation > under /usr/local, there is really nothing to fear. > > Cheers, > Dimitris > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > >
