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["yajeed2000" <david@...>]

This is in response to an email from Jerry Jacobs as I am unable to reply to him directly due to a mail delivery failed message.

-----Original Message-----
From: notify@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:notify@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of wafeliron
Sent: 19 September 2009 16:00
To: david@...
Subject: Compiling story on ubuntu 9.04

Hello David,
Did you documented/remember the actions you had to take to compile on ubuntu 9.04 Maybe you and i can expand the Compiling-Debian.txt

I already did some work on debian.

Regards,
Jerry Jacobs

---------------My Reply--------------------------------

Hi,
The first thing I did was follow this page up to the running kicad section

http://basicubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/02/installing-kicad-on-ubuntu.html

This resulted in the error message detailed in this post

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3180

The next step was to remove any libboost 1.34 libraries using the apt-get remove command (can't remember the exact commands I used) as the Ubuntu 9.04(Jaunty) repositories only had the 1.34 version available.

After this I installed the boost 1.37 libraries
using this command

sudo apt-get install libboost1.37-dev

This pulled down all the required files and dependencies (as far as I know-how do I check this?)

I then entered the following command

fakeroot debian/rules binary

and everything was built properly (I saw a few warnings flash past-will these be logged anywhere?)

I was left with a bunch of debian packaged files. I installed the main one,the common one and an English language documentation one (I can supply more details if needed later as I am not using Ubuntu at the moment).

The first link above describes moving the libraries and other files into the same place as the compiled executables. I didn't do this, so I have a duplicate installation.
The above method needs some fine tuning and improvements. If you can let meknow of a tidier way of compiling Kicad please let me know.
Maybe there is a way of automating things with scripts, my Linux knowledge doesn't go that far, yet.
Thanks.

David