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<li class="level1"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#installing_geda_rpm_packages_on_fedora" class="toc">Installing gEDA rpm packages on Fedora</a></span></div>
<ul class="toc">
<li class="level2"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#geda_gaf_for_fedora" class="toc">gEDA/gaf for fedora</a></span></div></li>
<li class="level2"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#how_to_install_geda_gaf_on_fedora" class="toc">How to install gEDA/gaf on Fedora</a></span></div>
<ul class="toc">
<li class="level3"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#the_easiest_way" class="toc">The easiest way</a></span></div></li>
<li class="level3"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#compile_it_yourself" class="toc">Compile it yourself</a></span></div></li>
<li class="level3"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#rebuild_your_own_rpms" class="toc">Rebuild your own rpms</a></span></div></li></ul>
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<h1><a name="installing_geda_rpm_packages_on_fedora" id="installing_geda_rpm_packages_on_fedora">Installing gEDA rpm packages on Fedora</a></h1>
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<h2><a name="geda_gaf_for_fedora" id="geda_gaf_for_fedora">gEDA/gaf for fedora</a></h2>
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<p>
gEDA/gaf applications are available for free download
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> on fedora official mirrors maintained by Chitlesh Goorah</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> and on Wojciech Kazubski’s <a href="http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/software.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/software.html" rel="nofollow"> website </a></div>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Each gEDA/gaf release is supposed to be on the fedora collection in one or two days time until the fedora mirrors are synced.
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<p>
The Fedora Project provides gEDA/gaf releases
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<ul>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Fedora Core 5</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Fedora Core 6 (Zod)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Fedora 7 (moonshine)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Fedora development (rawhide)</div>
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under the following architectures:
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> i386</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> x86_64</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> ppc</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> ppc64 (as from F7)</div>
</li>
</ul>
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The Fedora Project will <strong>perhaps</strong> even provide gEDA/gaf releases for sparc and alpha machines when F8 will be released.(it is still not yet confirmed.)
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<h2><a name="how_to_install_geda_gaf_on_fedora" id="how_to_install_geda_gaf_on_fedora">How to install gEDA/gaf on Fedora</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="the_easiest_way" id="the_easiest_way">The easiest way</a></h3>
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<p>
It is recommended to install gEDA/gaf releases on Fedora via yum or pirut. Pirut, also known under the name of “Add/Remove Software”, is a graphical interface for yum.
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<code><strong>yum install geda\* pcb gerbv</strong></code>
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Note: you have to be under root (su -) to install packages.
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A Fedora user will have every gEDA/gaf release which provides bug fixes and enhancement upon old releases in one or two days until the mirrors are synced.
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If it is not the case, you can kindly file a bug report (Request for Enhancement, RFE) on <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/" class="urlextern" title="http://bugzilla.redhat.com" rel="nofollow">Fedora's bugzilla</a> asking them to update gEDA/gaf for you.
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One can follow up
</p>
<ul>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> the releases on <a href="http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/" class="urlextern" title="http://clunixchit.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Chitlesh Goorah's blog</a>, or</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> the gEDA/gaf build times on <a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds?userID=159" class="urlextern" title="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds?userID=159" rel="nofollow">Fedora's build system</a></div>
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<p>
Note: As from 29th of June 2007, Fedora Core 5 has been marked as End Of Life (<acronym title="End of file">EOF</acronym>). gEDA/gaf 1.0.1-20070626 is the last update on FC5.
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<h3><a name="compile_it_yourself" id="compile_it_yourself">Compile it yourself</a></h3>
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<p>
If one want to get their hands dirty by building gEDA/gaf on Fedora, he/she will need
</p>
<p>
libstroke-devel, groff, autoconf, gtk2-devel, gd-devel, gettext-devel and guile-devel installed.
</p>
<p>
They can be installed via yum:
</p>
<p>
<code> <strong> yum install libstroke-devel groff autoconf gtk2-devel gd-devel gettext-devel and guile-devel </strong> </code>
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<p>
The recommended procedure is to compile and install (one by one):
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> libgeda</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-symbols</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-docs</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-examples</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-gschem</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-gattrib</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-gnetlist</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-gsymcheck</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> geda-utils</div>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
Note: Fedora Core 5 has guile 1.6.x whereas Fedora Core 6 and onwards has guile 1.8.x
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<h3><a name="rebuild_your_own_rpms" id="rebuild_your_own_rpms">Rebuild your own rpms</a></h3>
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<p>
The Fedora Project provides simple tools for one to rebuild any RPMs from SRPMs. SRPM contains the upstream sources, the <acronym title="specification">spec</acronym> file and the patches if any.
</p>
<p>
To be able to build RPMs, one will need a build platform, which does <strong>NOT</strong> require root access. rpmdevtools provides the requires tools to do so.
</p>
<p>
<code><strong>yum install rpmdevtools</strong></code> (as root)
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<h4><a name="build_platform" id="build_platform">Build Platform</a></h4>
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The build platform should be built under a NON-root account.
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<p>
<code>$ <strong>fedora-buildrpmtree</strong></code>
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<p>
You can see a <code>rpmbuild</code> folder under your $HOME directory. This directory will be your build platform.
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<h4><a name="how_to_get_srpms" id="how_to_get_srpms">How to get SRPMs</a></h4>
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<p>
Fedora provides SRPM of every package it has. You can download those SRPMs via <code>yumdownloader</code> from the yum-utils package.
</p>
<p>
<code> <strong> yum install yum-utils </strong> </code> (as root, if you don’t have yum-utils installed)
</p>
<p>
Download a particular SRPM (under a NON-root account) by <code>$ <strong>yumdownloader –source package –enablerepo=development-source</strong> </code>
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<p>
package is the name of the package you want to download.
</p>
<p>
Once the download is complete the package can be found under the current directory under the filename %{name}-%{version}-%{dist}.src.rpm.
</p>
<p>
Since a SRPM contains the upstream sources, the <acronym title="specification">spec</acronym> file and the patches if any we will extract them with:
</p>
<p>
<code>$ <strong>rpm -ivh %{name}-%{version}-%{dist}.src.rpm</strong></code>
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<p>
(I remind you that this should at no cost be executed as root !)
</p>
<p>
You will see
</p>
<ul>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> <acronym title="specification">spec</acronym> files will be installed in rpmbuild/SPECS</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> sources, patches and desktop files will be installed in rpmbuild/SOURCES</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<h4><a name="building_new_rpms_from_new_sources" id="building_new_rpms_from_new_sources">Building new RPMS from new sources</a></h4>
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<ul>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> download your new sources</div>
</li>
<li class="level1"><div class="li"> edit the rpmbuild/SPECS/%{name}.<acronym title="specification">spec</acronym></div>
<ul>
<li class="level3"><div class="li"> edit version tag</div>
</li>
<li class="level3"><div class="li"> edit release tag</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
with repect to your newly downloaded sources.
</p>
<p>
<code><strong> cd rpmbuild/SPECS/ </strong></code>
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<p>
now start building the RPMS:
</p>
<p>
<code> <strong> rpmbuild -ba %{name}.<acronym title="specification">spec</acronym></strong></code>
</p>
<p>
replace %{name} by the name of the package (example, libgeda, geda-gschem…).
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<p>
The successfully build RPMS will be found in the folders of ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/.
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