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-The resources listed on this page only apply to gEDA/gaf. For all other associated programs, please see their respective homepages for their developer resources.
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Note the geda-dev mailing list is a "subscription by invitation only" list.
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This is a departure from the past where anybody could join the developer list. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the gEDA community has grown so large that there were "too many food critics in the kitchen" and that was impeding development progress.
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This policy might change in the future depending on the response and feedback.
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All users and new developers, please subscribe to the geda-user list to discuss any issues, as all developers hang out there too.
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New developers: As you interact with the project (and the various individuals), you will be invited to join the geda-dev mailing list.
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All discussions are public and achived (see above links). This policy will always be in effect.
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-Accessing the gEDA/gaf repository
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-Please see the gEDA Source Control Management page for information on how to access the gEDA/gaf repository using git or CVS.
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-Build git repository version of gEDA/gaf
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-To build the git repository version of gEDA/gaf, follow these instructions:
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Download and install all the following dependencies. You will
- probably want to use your distributions package management system
- (such as apt-get or yum) to install the dependencies.
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A C compiler and C standard library (GCC and GNU Libc are recommended)
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- It is pretty important to have all of the above programs (especially
- automake, autoconf, libtool, gtk, and guile) installed in the same prefix
- (like /usr or /usr/local). If you do not have them all installed in
- the same prefix, then building and installing gEDA/gaf is much harder.
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- Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the gEDA SCM page.
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- Build the software by executing the following commands inside of the newly cloned git repository:
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- ./autogen.sh
- ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda
- make
- make install
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- If the above commands execute without any error messages, then you have successfully built and installed gEDA/gaf. If you encounter any errors, be sure to read the README and INSTALL files contained within the tarball.
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- You can now run the various programs in the gEDA suite. Please read the
-README file which describes what is available.
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- gschem is the schematic capture program and can be run by executing:
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- PATH_WHERE_gEDA_GAF_IS_INSTALLED/bin/gschem
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- It is recommended that you add PATH_WHERE_gEDA_GAF_IS_INSTALLED/bin to your PATH environment variable (typically done by modifying one of the following files: $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.bash_profile, or $HOME/.profile).
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- It is highly recommended that you read the gEDA documentation at this point. You can access the gEDA documentation by running gschem and select Help/gEDA Documentation... from the top menu.
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If you want to get gEDA/gaf repository commit log e-mail messages, please
- subscribe to the geda-cvs mailing list. Please see the
- mailing lists page for info on
- how to do this.
-
-Several different methods to install gEDA exist. Select your
-installation method depending upon your Linux distribution and your
-level of expertise. If one install method doesn't work for you, please
-try a different one. Consult the
-gEDA wiki for further download/install tips. Also, if this is
-your first time installing gEDA, please read
-the gEDA words to the wise.
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Distribution Packages / Binaries
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-Installing gEDA using a pre-built package is the most painless method
-to install the software. Automated package installers like "yum" or
-"apt-get" handle all dependencies for you. Newbies should use these
-methods to install gEDA on their systems. Alternately, good old "rpm"
-will also work, although you may need to install dependencies first.
-
-For those people who cannot find binaries of the gEDA Suite programs
-via your distribution, you can try to install the gEDA Binary Suite.
-The gEDA Binary Suite is only for x86 GNU/Linux and contains everything
-you need to run the gEDA Suite programs on any GNU/Linux distribution
-(released after October 2001).
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The current version of the gEDA Binary Suite is 0.0.2
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Be sure to read the README for installation information.
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The gEDA Binary Suite can be download via: HTTPFTP
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Be sure to verify your download tar.bz2 file against the: md5sum
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Sources
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-gEDA is
-free / open-source software.
-Developers interested in getting all sources can download the individual
-components from the sources download page.
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Words to the Wise
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gEDA is a set of GNU/Linux or Unix-native programs.
-There is no supported Windows version. However, since most programs are based
-on the cross-platform GTK+ libraries, it is theoretically possible to
-build a Windows version. Therefore, if you want a Windows version,
-please feel free to grab the sources and try to build one yourself.
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The gEDA programs use the GTK+ GUI toolkit. If you are running KDE, you
-should have no problem building and installing them as long as
-the GTK+ libraries and headers are installed on your system.
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gEDA/gaf, as well as the gEDA-allied programs have certain
-dependencies. These are libraries and other programs which must be present on
-your system to build and run gEDA successfully. When trying to
-install gEDA, you may find that you need to install other, seemingly
-unrelated programs first. This is part of the normal
-process of installing GNU/Linux or Unix software. Note that the
-installation methods presented above provide you with different
-approaches to handling the dependency issue. (Also, gEDA/gaf has a
-very light dependency footprint. However, other gEDA-allied programs
-may have more dependencies.) If you find you are missing dependencies
-during the installation process don't despair!
-Overcoming any dependency issue is a simple matter of installing the
-required program or library.
-
@@ -104,53 +96,19 @@ HREf="http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial">tutorial.
For even more information on installing and using gEDA, please look at the
gEDA Wiki. To get up and running
as fast as possible, new users should install the gEDA Binary Suite, which
-can be obtained from the download page.
+can be obtained from the download page.
Users looking for more symbols and footprints should go to the gedasymbols.org website.
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gEDA and GSoC 2010
+
Wiki
-Unfortunately, The gEDA Project was not accepted into this year's Google Summer of Code. Many thanks to everybody involved in applying and setting up the
-application!
+Please visit the gEDA wiki
+for more FAQs, the official documentation, a bunch of developer pages,
+and other useful information.