Peter Clifton wrote: >Is there any particular reason you're using the gEDA binary suite, >rather than fetching gEDA from your distro's package system?
I don't think ito 'your distro, your psychologist, your travel agent'. When I move to another distro, I expect to be able to just continue. I shouldn't need a special car-make to reach the street-building ? I started with gedasuite-linux-x86-0.0.2.tar.bz2 = 19698K, which cost me 100 minutes of expensive d/l time. ------ snip --------- > I'm nor committed to any particular linux. > All GNU/linux should work. They all do, and BSD, Mac, Solaris, Windows... (gEDA runs on all of those - not all from the binary installer though!) So, altho' it's called install.sh, it might not succeed in systems which claim the provide 'sh' ?! ----- snip ------------ >>Please someone tell me how 'dbus-launch' fits into geda? >xgsch2pcb and pcb use D-Bus for IPC. dbus-launch is responsible for >ensuring that a D-Bus session daemon is up and running for gEDA to work with. ------ ok, thanks. ---- snip ------- >Since mandrake probably _has_ a D-Bus session bus running, you >might run into trouble. `pgrep us' == only shows the bdflush proccess Nor does man, whereis, locate show any "dbus". But the geda package has dbus* executables. >Ideally you'd compile from source, or install the distro's packages. >In case you didn't find it yet: http://geda.seul.org/download.html ========= I've had enough punishment for a while thanks. goog tells: D-bus is an inter-process communication mechanism. ? so try to run individual proccesses. Trace 'execution route' from geda-0.0.2/bin/geda -> ./pythonwrapper -> geda-0.0.2/bin/.scripts/ .../geda-0.0.2/bin/gschemdoc -m == found /usr/bin/mozilla & Using browser & file ..gedadocs.html & shows wiki 1.4.0 in browser. .../geda-0.0.2/bin/gschemdoc -w == shows the same. .../geda-0.0.2/bin/* has 8 executables & many links try run: bin/.binaries/geda-pcb.x -> pcb.x -> pcb-gtk.x == shared-lib error & same error for pcb-lesstif.x & different lib-error for gschem.x But the error-libs ARE in /mnt/mul/....lib/... ldd ./gnetlist.x == show list of libs in "/lib & /usr/lib" ? It seems that the/mnt/mul/.... lib-dir is Not in the environment. ...install.sh says 'NOT to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to <geda>' but can set PATH to $installdir/bin ?!?! since the 'installation is NOT so big, try to install at default location:- run: /mnt/mul/gedasuite-linux-x86-0.0.2/install.sh == install to /usr/local/geda-0.0.2 == creates dir & verifying files... == cannot create dir /usr/local/geda-0.0.2 Permission denied Try create /usr/local/geda-0.0.2 under root & change owner to eas & install as eas == error: <dir> already exists, please remove and rerun the script !! what a canOworms ?? == Chris Glur. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user