On Thu, 2007-22-11 at 00:10 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:38 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote: > > Many thanks Peter for the offer. I would like to accept.
Hi Peter, I have pulled your files over. The first two I simply pasted into gedit and saved with the original name. I came unstuck unpacking the sources. I have pasted into the e-mail from the terminal the results of "ls" and the unpack please see below. Regards Ian. > > > I would be really pleased to try your .deb file. I think that would be > > simpler than updating Ubuntu and being frustrated by plugins and print > > drivers again. > > Its not going to work out of the box, I think you'll need to compile it. > I've put the debian package bits online at: > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcb/pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcb/pcb_20070912-1CUED2.diff.gz > > You will also need the PCB sources "pcb-20070912.tar.gz" from here: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73743&package_id=73907&release_id=539173 > > Rename this file "pcb_20070912.orig.tar.gz" > > Make a directory for sources, and put the above files in it. > > Start off by getting some packages necessary to build: > apt-get install build-essential intltool dpkg-dev fakeroot dpatch > libgd2-xpm-dev > > And to get extra stuff for PCB: > apt-get build-dep pcb > (Although this is not the new version's build depends, it will be close) > > >From the sources directory, unpack the sources with this command: > dpkg-source -x pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc =================================================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PCB_sources$ ls pcb_20070912-1CUED2.diff.gz pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc pcb_20070912.orig.tar.gz Peter's_instructions [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PCB_sources$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PCB_sources$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PCB_sources$ dpkg-source -x pcb_20070912-1CUED2.dsc gpg: Signature made Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:46:16 PM EST using RSA key ID 3BC3653D gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found dpkg-source: error: file pcb_20070912.orig.tar.gz has size 3836056 instead of expected 3836486 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PCB_sources$ =================================================================================== > > cd into the unpacked directory (I think it will be pcb-20070912 or > something similar) > > and start the build process: > dpkg-buildpkg -us -uc -rfakeroot > > If it complains about missing build dependencies, apt-get install them > > Once the build process finishes, "cd .." out of the source dir, and > you'll find the .deb file "pcb_20070912-1CUED2_i386.deb" > > Install that with: > dpkg --install pcb_20070912-1CUED2_i386.deb > > You may wish to dpkg --install the attached > electronics-menu_0.1.0_all.deb too. It adds an "Electronics" category to > the main menu. This is pretty architecture independent, as its only > config files - so you ought not to need to rebuild it. > > > Let me know where along the build process this breaks, as I'm bound to > have forgotten something! > > Best wishes, > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user