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Frequently Asked Questions - Geda
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IDE does not open a schematic on clicking 'Open-SCH'!

Yes it could be that you are missing a complete Scheme system needed for Geda scripting.

Try checking with your Package Manager that the following packages are loaded ( Debian Etch packages shown as an example ),

 
   On Debian 4.0 based systems 'guile' amounts to the following (or something fairly close),
           
          guile-1.6_1.6.8-6_i386.deb
          guile-1.6-dev_1.6.8-6_i386.deb
          guile-g-wrap_1.9.6-3.1_i386.deb
          guile-1.6-libs_1.6.8-6_i386.deb
          guile-library_0.1.2-1_all.deb
          guile-1.6-slib_1.6.8-6_all.deb

    also Geda dependancies needed

          Stroke gesture library          - libstroke V0.5.1 or later.
          PNG library                          - libpng V1.2.1 or later.
          Compression library             - zlib V1.1.4 or later.

    and Gnome build environment,

           autotools
 
autoconf_2.61-4_all.deb
automake_1%3a1.10+nogfdl-1_all.deb
autotools-dev_20060702.1_all.deb
 
           libglibc2-dev
 
libglib2.0-dev_2.12.4-2_i386.deb
 
           cairo-dev
 
libcairo2-dev_1.2.4-4_i386.deb
 
           pango-1-dev
 
libcairo2-dev_1.2.4-4_i386.deb
 
           glib2-dev
 
libglib2.0-dev_2.12.4-2_i386.deb 
           gtk2-dev
 
libgtk2.0-dev_2.8.20-7_i386.deb
 
           freetype2
 
libfreetype6-dev_2.2.1-5_i386.deb 
           gawk or mawk
 
mawk_1.3.3-11_i386.deb 
           flex      
flex_2.5.33-11_i386.deb
 
           bison   
bison_1%3a2.3.dfsg-4_i386.deb 
           libgmp-dev
 
libgmp3-dev_2%3a4.2.1+dfsg-4_i386.deb  
           libmpfr-dev
 
libmpfr-dev_2.2.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb
 
           tcl-dev 
tcl8.4-dev_8.4.12-1.1_i386.deb
 
           tk-dev
 
tk8.4-dev_8.4.12-1_i386.deb
 
           xlibs-dev
 
libx11-dev_2%3a1.0.3-7_i386.deb
 
           x-dev           
      
x11proto-core-dev_7.0.7-2_all.deb
x-dev_7.0.7-2_all.deb
 
           tar
 
tar_1.16-2_i386.deb
 
           bunzip2
 
bzip2



IDE still does not open a schematic!

This could be because you have installed the 'Tool Set' from the side4linuxDVD. As this installs only binaries it may be that your distribution contains different libaries from ours. If this is the case then download the 'PCBSsupport' package from the Help front page,

Help>Download Packages locally from DVD>Support

Note: If the link does not open then you may have to adjust your file permissions on the directories in /opt/Side to suit.
Read the installation directions in 'DVDinstallPackages.txt' and install, then try again.
















































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