On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Since the gEDA kit in the repo's seems to be rather broken, I thought I'd
> give eagle another chance, so I downloaded, from the cadsoft site, the
> latest 64 bit linux installer, but can't find a help file, and obviously
> I am not training my monkeys correctly.
>
> Has anyone else had any luck, running it after convincing the installer
> where you wanted it installed?
>
> I have cd'd to its base directory, and exported EAGLEDIR=`pwd' so it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is that verbatim? I'd put an actual absolute path there. The second
'tic' is not a backtick.
Do backsticks actually work in this case?
> shows in that shells env report, but it can't find its executable with
> both hands, prefering to give me a
> gene@coyote:~/eagle-7.5.0$ bin/eagle
> bash: bin/eagle: No such file or directory
>
> Clues? I'm confused enough without this.
You could try and use the find command to see where it actually is.
I use a locate variant e.g.
# apt-cache show mlocate
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