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[Kaspar Bumke <kaspar.bumke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for these instructions. I am switching to Debian myself and they
helped me quickly get KiCAD installed again to look at board I need to
solder!

However, there are quite a few bad practices in there mainly in using sudo
when you don't need to (also, unlike in Ubuntu sudo isn't necessarily
installed on Debian) and using /opt/ to build which should be for installed
software. Is there a way I can edit this page?



On 2 July 2013 21:56, Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mat,
> thanks a lot, this solved the problem:
>
> sudo apt-get install bzrtools
>
> I will update the website install instructions to reflect this change
>
> cheers
> Fabrizio
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Matthew Beckler
> <matthew.beckler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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