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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:17:57 -0500
From: Darryl Gibson <n2diy2 AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] Git/Xubuntu
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On 01/22/2012 11:49 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:09:53AM -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote:
>> Well, It took me a while, but I've got gschem and PCB working via Git.
>>
>> Last night I was pulling my hair out going through dependency hull, so I
>> slept on it.
>>
> 
> Installing gEDA from your package manager, or from source? If it was
> from source, was the problem that ./configure kept telling you you
> were missing things?

From source, via Git.

I don't remember which part of the install was throwing the errors, but
they were libs I couldn't locate with apt-get or synaptic. After
installing Gnome, and running through the install again, the two missing
packages were IDed in plain English.

>> Sometime between now and then I realized all the Gtk errors might be due
>> to the fact I wasn't running Gnome.
> 
> Most likely, you just need gnome installed (or some gtk packages).
> Actually running it is unnecessary, unless you want to.

Yes, though installing Gnome seriously messed up Xfce4 and Xfwm4, which
I just got done fixing with help from the folks at #xfce. And Gnome
hasn't show up as an option at log in, but that's ok.
>>
>> I found one mistake in the instructions, make install wouldn't run, but
>> sudo make install did.
>>
> 
> This is fine. Some people don't have sudo. Some people don't install
> into directories they don't have permissions for. So there's probably
> no general way to fix the instructions.

Ok, I just let the installer do its thing, where the files go I don't
know. :) I just remembered using sudo on previous source installs.

>> If there is interest, I can do another Git/Xubuntu install on my test
>> box, and document what's what.
>>
> 
> No thanks. If the problem was simply missing dependecies, it's not a
> big deal since developers are (mostly) used to dealing with that sort
> of thing, and users don't need to, since their package manager will
> deal with it for them.

True, though the reason I felt compelled to install from source is
because (X)Ubuntu seems to lag so far behind the current version of
geda, and I had a nagging feeling that the version I was using was
broken. But now I'm current, as of 36 hours ago, so alls well. (knock knock)

-- 
Darryl Gibson N2DIY
Linux, free software, for the people, by the people.