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[Matthew Beckler <matthew.beckler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fabrizio,

I actually just ran into this "unknown command 'patch'" error with BZR on
Ubuntu last week. I believe you need to install the bzrtools package, and
that will add the "patch" command to your BZR.

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=bzrtools

Good luck,
Matthew Beckler
Wayne and Layne, LLC


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Actually following the instructions from here:
>
> http://baby.bedroom.gen.nz/~clive/kicad-re/tutorial/kicad-mainline-debian-install.php
>
> I do not seem to be able to compile KiCad on a Debian 7, 64 bit
> machine. Error here:
>
> $ sudo make -j 4
> Scanning dependencies of target boost
> Scanning dependencies of target potrace
> [  0%] Performing patch step for 'boost'
> [  0%] [  0%] Building CXX object
> potrace/CMakeFiles/potrace.dir/bitmap_io.cpp.o
> Building CXX object potrace/CMakeFiles/potrace.dir/curve.cpp.o
> Scanning dependencies of target bitmaps
> [  0%] bzr: ERROR: unknown command "patch"
> Building CXX object potrace/CMakeFiles/potrace.dir/decompose.cpp.o
> make[2]: ***
> [../.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_53_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-patch]
> Error 3
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> [  1%] Building CXX object potrace/CMakeFiles/potrace.dir/greymap.cpp.o
>
>
> Google does not help much with "bzr: ERROR: unknown command "patch""
>
> Any idea?
>
> thanks
> Fabrizio
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Fabrizio Tappero
> <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > well, I see appox 1GB installed in dependencies and needed sw for
> > build kicad, I see 120 MB of some other downloded stuff then i see 183
> > MB of KiCad repo. All this took maybe 30 min or so. The build/install
> > process is not sure, 5 min (wild guess).
> >
> > I update the make part.
> >
> > cheers
> > Fabrizio
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> On 07/02/2013 12:48 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I have updated the instructions to install KiCad on Debian and other
> distros...
> >>> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite
> >>
> >> Quoting from the site:
> >>
> >> "
> >> That is it. You now have the latest version of KiCad. If, at any time,
> you want to update
> >> your version of KiCad you do the following:
> >>
> >> cd /opt/kicad.bzr
> >> bzr update
> >> cd build
> >> rm -rf *
> >> cmake ../
> >> make
> >> sudo make install
> >> "
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Fabrizio,
> >>
> >> I think the update procedure is not correct.  If you do "rm -rf *" then
> your
> >> CMakeCache.txt file is gone, and the line
> >>
> >> cmake ../
> >>
> >> becomes insufficient.
> >>
> >> I would replace these two lines which I mention, with one line:
> >>
> >> make clean
> >>
> >> which is followed by
> >> make
> >>
> >> This is probably adequate.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> the whole process takes however veeeeery long time a lots of space.
> >>
> >>
> >> Really?  Can you elaborate on what is consuming the time and the space.
>  Narrow down the
> >> problem as you see it please.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Does any body knows a better way? I am not sure a direct link like
> >>> this
> >>> http://kicad.tuturutu.cz/
> >>>
> >>> could be a solution because the software update process would be not
> >>> really automatic.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any change we could add here:
> >>>
> >>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adamwolf/kicad-testing-daily
> >>>
> >>> a non-ubuntu repo?
> >>>
> >>> how about an install script for all linux distro?
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone had success packaging wxWidgets in a premade DSO format,
> same binaries for all
> >> linux platforms?  If not, then it seems unlikely we could do this.
>  What other
> >> (commercial) EDA tools do is provide many of the GUI libraries as part
> of the prebuilt
> >> binaries.  Check around about a prebuilt wxWidgets DSO set that could
> accompany a
> >> pre-built KiCad.  This is more of a wx investigation.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> how about a check
> >>> for updates inside KiCad itself? ... just throwing ideas...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Fabrizio
> >>>
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