Hi. Just completed an install of the geda CD on my laptop (Thinkpad T22). Like my desktop box this system runs Debian testing/etch with a few packages from unstable/sid sprinkled in. Some notes:
Like with my desktop I had to restart the install script several times and add packages from the distribution. Finding the right packages involved a bit of guess work. This would have been easier if the configure script gave the details what files it is missing. Can you make the script more verbose? During the process most of X windows including drivers and basic packages received an update. On first trial make of gschem complained that it could not find gtk+2.2 or later, although the initial configure script of the installer was satisfied and libgtk2* v2.8.20 was installed. Reason was, that calls to pkg-config failed and needed an update of libext6 and libxi to work. Maybe the configure script should not only check whether pkg-config works properly. In contrast to my desktop system, compile of gnucap did not fail on the Thinkpad. Bottom line: The iso image provided an install that was much less demanding than manually collecting all the source packages from CVS repository. On the other hand, it requires definitely more admin knowledge than the usual install of deb packages. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user