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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll have to look into it further.  You said you're on 12.04 right
now?  I definitely tested the 12.04 64 bit packages and they worked
fine for me.

Adam Wolf

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Hans Henry von Tresckow
<hvontres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, here is what I get from today's install:
>
> henry@Dr-Bunsen:~/kicad/LCD Driver$ pcbnew
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named pcbnew
> henry@Dr-Bunsen:~/kicad/LCD Driver$
>
> It looks like the pcbnew module is not getting packaged somehow.
>
> Here is the version Info from pcbnew:
>
> Application: Pcbnew
> Version: (2012-oct-18)-testing
> Build: wxWidgets 2.8.12 (no debug,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI
> 1002,GCC 4.6.3,wx containers,compatible with 2.6)
> Platform: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> Boost version: 1.49.0
> Options: USE_PCBNEW_SEXPR_FILE_FORMAT=OFF
>          USE_PCBNEW_NANOMETRES=ON
>          USE_PCBNEW_SEXPR_FOOTPRINT_LIBS=OFF
>          KICAD_GOST=OFF
>          USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>          USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>          USE_BOOST_POLYGON_LIBRARY=OFF
>          KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>
>
> Anything else I should try?
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Adam Wolf
> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> Could you try again?  I tested the kicad from
>> kicad-scripting-testing-daily for Ubuntu 12.04.  I put the footprint
>> wizard python file in ~/.kicad_plugins, and I was able to open pcbnew,
>> click the module editor, and see the footprint wizard button.  I
>> clicked it, and a new window opened saying Footprint Wizard with a
>> bunch of wizardy stuff.  From that, it seems that it's working (at
>> least mostly!)
>>
>> It builds on the Launchpad servers for 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04.  I
>> have added investigating why it doesn't build for 11.10 and 11.04 to
>> my list of things to do.  For Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04, they have
>> changed the Kicad versioning.  The official Ubuntu package in their
>> repository has a version number of 0.20120526..., which is "newer"
>> than 0.0.201210... which are the ones I'm creating now.  There are
>> also a few assumptions in the packaging that were correct in the past,
>> but are not correct now, regarding the documentation and a few things
>> about dependencies.  Cleaning those up so we are a great example of
>> how to package for Debian and Ubuntu is also on my list of things to
>> do. (Along with seeing if people can have kicad-with-scripting
>> installed next to kicad-without, which would be a great template for
>> any other feature branches we get in the future, and looking into the
>> package name changing that someone asked about on the list a few days
>> ago.)
>>
>> However, all those caveats being said, if any brave souls want to try
>> it, here are the instructions.
>>
>> If you are on Ubuntu 12.04:
>>
>> If you already have kicad installed, from either a PPA or from the
>> official repo, uninstall it first.
>> sudo apt-get remove kicad kicad-common
>>
>> Add the tentative kicad-scripting-testing ppa:
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adamwolf/kicad-scripting-testing-daily
>>
>> Update your package list:
>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> Install the new packages:
>> sudo apt-get install kicad
>>
>> To go back to how you had it before, if these packages don't work for you.
>> Remove the current packages
>> sudo apt-get remove kicad kicad-common
>>
>> Remove the new PPA
>> sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/adamwolf-kicad-scripting-testing-daily-*.list
>>
>> Optional: add my PPA back if you used to use it, otherwise skip this
>> step if you want the stock Ubuntu packages
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adamwolf/kicad-testing-daily
>>
>> Update your package list:
>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> Install the other packages:
>> sudo apt-get install kicad
>>
>> If you are on Ubuntu 12.10 or an alpha release of 13.04:
>>
>> If you already have kicad installed, from either a PPA or from the
>> official repo, uninstall it first.
>> sudo apt-get remove kicad kicad-common
>>
>> Add the tentative kicad-scripting-testing ppa:
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adamwolf/kicad-scripting-testing-daily
>>
>> Update your package list:
>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> Find out the options for kicad:
>> sudo apt-cache showpkg kicad
>>
>> Read to see which one comes from my PPA. Its version will start
>> 0.0.201210... (until October is over)  Note that version number
>>
>> Install the new packages:
>> sudo apt-get install kicad=0.0.201210...
>>
>> To revert, do the same thing as you would if you were on 12.04.
>>
>> Question:
>> Should I change my PPA versioning to match the newer Ubuntus?  I don't
>> see this hurting anything on the older Ubuntu releases, and it will
>> make my PPA be less hassle on 12.10 (the "current" Ubuntu) as well as
>> future releases.  If I don't hear objections, I'll make this change
>> over the weekend.  No one should notice anything, as far as I know.
>>
>> Do you follow this list and use an Ubuntu older than 12.04?  12.04 is
>> the latest Long Term Support release, which should have updates for 5
>> years.  I'll probably be sticking with 12.04 on my main development
>> machine for a while, but I use the current release at work.  If no one
>> here uses an Ubuntu older than 12.04, I will put compatibility with
>> those releases lower priority than some of the other packaging tasks.
>>
>> This PPA is still definitely experimental, and please assume that
>> issues you run into with it are the fault of the package, not the
>> scripting support.
>>
>> Adam Wolf
>> Wayne and Layne
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Adam Wolf
>> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I think it's more that the dependencies are named differently in the
>>> older versions.  There's a special tool that chroots the compilaton so
>>> you can check for obscure dependencies.
>>>
>>> 12.04 and 12.10, as well as the two newer versions beyond that,
>>> "compile" on the remote system, but they have the issue you mentioned.
>>>
>>> I'll let you know when I get it working--it should be soon, but I've
>>> never seen this issue before.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Hans Henry von Tresckow
>>> <hvontres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I'm on 12.04 for now, but I think in another week or so I'll switch
>>>> over to 12.10. I wonder if there might be some obscure dependancy you
>>>> have locally but that does not get pulled in on the build server.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Adam Wolf
>>>> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> I'm able to compile using my recipe and packaging stuff on my local machine,
>>>>> and it works, but when I upload the recipe to the PPA build servers, it
>>>>> produces crashy programs.
>>>>>
>>>>> What OS version are you using?  I'm having issues getting it to work on any
>>>>> Ubuntu version older than 12.04. I had this description on the recipe, but
>>>>> not the PPA. "This is a testing build of KiCad, with scripting enabled.
>>>>> Scripting support works, but may crash. This package might not work."  I
>>>>> have since added it to the PPA as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was able to get the footprint wizard to work fine, which imports from
>>>>> pcbnew.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running into a variety of small issues, including the fact that with
>>>>> 12.10, the Ubuntu package number has changed from 0.0.date to 0.date.  I
>>>>> think it may be prudent for me to change my PPA versioning to match,
>>>>> otherwise I think we'll see some weird issues. (The old kicad in the
>>>>> official repo will always be a higher version than my current generated
>>>>> packages, for 12.10 and newer.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll certainly post here when I feel the packages are ready to be tested.
>>>>> After that, starting the middle of November, I hope to spend an hour a week
>>>>> on KiCad packaging for Ubuntu/Debian until it's where I like.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam Wolf
>>>>> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Hans Henry von Tresckow
>>>>> <hvontres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just tried the first build of Adam's scripting PPA, but it seems I
>>>>>> can't import the pcbnew module. Is this an issue with sys.path or do
>>>>>> we still have a packaging issue?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
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> Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)