I have 1.4.0-20080127 installed. Installed it with synaptic manager with Ubuntu 8.04.
I need to update convert_sym in the util package. I downloaded the latest version of convert_sym and made some changes. It will not let me compile because configure: error: libgeda detection error: Requested 'libgeda >= 20080929' but version of libgeda is 20080127 So I decided to install 1.4.1.20080929 1. I downloaded all of the files into /home/backup/Work/gEDA 2. I checked and gtk+, guile, pkg-config, LibStroke are the right versions. 3. All of the files are untared. 4. The instructions say "Set the prefix= variable in the make file." I do not understand what that means. Do I have to edit the makefile in my /home/backup/Work/gEDA? Or is "prefix=" part of the command with an argument? and what should it be if I want to overwrite my existing 1.4.0 version. 5. So I just entered make and it looks like it set the variables. 6. Then I tried make install [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/backup/Work/gEDA $ make install ( cd geda-symbols-1.4.1; make install ) make[1]: Entering directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1' Making install in 4000 make[2]: Entering directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z "/usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/4000" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/4000" /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/gEDA': Permission denied make[3]: *** [install-data4000DATA] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1' make: *** [symbols_install] Error 2 so something is wrong. I am guessing it has to do with the Step #4 that I did not know what to do about. What do I do? Kip In that directory from the I typed make -- Kipton Moravec AE5IB "Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest." --Mark Twain _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user