| ID: | 3264 |
| From: | Stan Gammons <sg...@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Aug 2019 22:23:38 -0500 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] Building from source on Kubuntu 18.04 |
| in-reply-to: | 3263 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
Hi, On 8/9/19 9:48 PM, gedau@igor2.repo.hu wrote: > Hello Stan, > > welcome on board! Thanks! > Since pcb-rnd has an official package for ubuntu, an alternative is > > apt-get build-dep pcb-rnd > > which should install any package that was required building the version > (and configuration) of the official package. I think the official package for Ubuntu 18.04 is an older 1.x version of pcb-rnd. The "bleeding edge" version of Ubuntu, 19.04, has a fairly recent 2.x version of pcb-rnd. Being a Linux fan from the early days, I have a habit of building things from source :) > There are really no requirements, only options. For each option you need > to decide if you want to use that feature or not. For example you > installed libmotif-dev, so you will be able to run the lesstif HID (as an > alternative to the gtk2 HID). But most users won't do that, so installing > libmotif is not required. Oh, I didn't know that. I figured whatever ./configure complained about missing was the packages I needed to make it work. Thanks for telling me that. > > For fungw, you need to decide if you want embedded scripting. We have a > pool node about all possible scripting at > > http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=Iscript > > The ones marked fungw will be affected by your choice. > >> Can someone point me to a tutorial aimed at a newbie? > We have a very incomplete user guide at > > http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=Iuguide > > We have an user manual in the svn, at trunk/doc/user/index.html, also > accessible online at > > http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/user/index.html > > This one is more complete, but is not a tutorial, rather a description of > the software. I recommend reading through it, especially the data model > part (chapter 2), because using any EDA/CAD is really manipulating data > (board data in our case) so it's important to have a good understanding on > that data. > > Plus you can always ask here or on IRC. > > HTH, > > Igor2 > Ok. I'll take a look at those. Thanks for your help! Stan
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