On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 21:25 -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >> Hello! >> I just downloaded and extracted the currently available binary, which is: >> 0.0.2, and the readme for it suggested that I bring issues here. >> >> I also installed it accordingly for regular users, and opened a >> terminal and logged into it via the user thus selected. (I suspect >> I'll need to actually log into the system using the user I chose.....) >> >> However here is what the system told me: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/geda-0.0.2/bin$ ./geda >> /usr/local/geda-0.0.2/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: >> GtkWarning: could not open display >> warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) >> Warning: Failed to load gettext translations >> /usr/local/geda-0.0.2/lib/geda-xgsch2pcb/gui.py:50: Warning: invalid >> (NULL) pointer instance > > ... > >> Now this is a KDE interface, as my distribution gave up on Gnome >> something like two to three releases previously. > > I'm surprised this would be the error messages you get if GTK wasn't > working, but that does look like a possibility. (Or a strange version of > PyGTK). > > Gnome is not required for any of gEDA, just GTK. If GTK works for > gschem, gattrib etc.., then it "should" be possible to make it work with > the Python based tools. If not, then you may just have to start the > tools individually from the command line. > > BTW.. what distro is this? > > -- > Peter Clifton > > Electrical Engineering Division, > Engineering Department, > University of Cambridge, > 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, > Cambridge > CB3 0FA > > Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) >
Hello! It happens this is Slackware. I've been a confirmed user of Slackware for the past nine years having given up on Red Hat for my work. ----- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user