On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:52 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Dan Thurman wrote: > > In reply to everyone who responded, I ran into > > a couple of issues when trying to figure out how > > to install gEDA on Fedora.... > > > > > > 1) Created the CD, plugged the CD into the CD-player > > and Fedora FC5 does not autorun. Oddball was > > I also have a 2nd CD/DVD (both RW) and it seems > > to autorun but I could not run ./installer maybe > > because the mount properties are not correct. > > > > 2) Digging deeper, the README says that if autorun > > fails, then to manually mount with gentoo/debian > > style, which I did, and I was then able to run > > the installer script. > > > > I had assumed at this point that following the > > wizard instructions, to define the source and > > installation directory would somehow take care > > of things for the proper environment, i.e. a > > Fedora environment for it's filesystem structure > > but I guess I was wrong... it was not installed > > in the correct place(s). > > > > Can anyone tell me how to properly install gEDA > > on Fedora or point me to the links where I can > > read up on it and install it right? > > There are a bunch of gEDA packages in the review queue for Fedora Extras. > > You might consider trying them: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora+Extras&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=gEDA > > Paul. > Looks to me that gEDA is just not capable of being built and installed on FC5 at this time. I tried to build/install using the gEDA wizard but it stops short attempting to build the gnucap application so I filed a bug report at the gEDA sourceforge site. It is not clear exactly what the problem is - but I have seen something like this behavior in another application I was trying to build in FC5 and it involved g++ and iterator resolving issues but I don't know exactly what the problem is, i.e. if the problem is with the application itself, is g++ as bugs or is newer, or g++'s libraries with bugs, missing, or newer or what. No clue. As for the link you provided, I am not sure what to do with it other than to see there are others wanting sponsors and/or is reviewing gEDA and a bunch of .spec files to be reviewed but getting gEDA onto FC5 appears not ready for FC5 at this time? It seems gEDA in the experimental extras area is a bit fragmented compared with the full gEDA CD suite so I would not even know where to begin or start. Dan
