[sdiy] xcircuit and pcb

[John Luciani]

On 20 Sep 2006 21:28:50 -0400, R. D. Davis <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
> Quothe John Luciani, from writings of Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:01:18PM -0400:

> > I could probably answer questions on using gschem with pcb. I have
> > done apx. 30 board
> > layouts using the combination of gschem and pcb.
>
> At first, I was going to give gschem a try, but obtaining all of the
> necessary parts of the related software---which appeared to be
> archived individually looked like a pain without downloading the
> CD-ROM image (which would take me a very long time), and I didn't want
> the binary packages.  At first glance, getting, and determining, all
> that was needed to be downloaded didn't seem very straight-forward,
> but I didn't spend much time looking the web site over; it may make
> more sense if I look it over again.  I didn't want to install 500MB of
> related and, quite likely unnecessary, software.

I have used the ISO-image to install the last three or four versions.
http://geda.seul.org/download.html

I usually use --prefix so that all of the software installs in a
directory that I choose
rather than scattered throughout the filesystem. You just need to update an
ldconfig file and run ldconfig when you are done.

> Also, I read that component numbers in gschem start out at 100; is
> that true?

No. There was an error in a renumber script that set a default to 100
but I believe
that was fixed (I never needed to use the script).

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