Re: eagle CAD (corrections)

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 01/12/2011 01:33 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:30:19 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> > On 01/11/2011 05:20 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > Hi Guys&  Gals
> > >
> > > I haven't used eagle in many moons and have a need to use it for a new
> > > project. ISTR that my installation "used' to autoroute the board but I
> > > can't seem to get the latest testing version  autoroute.
> >                                                        ^ To    "
> >
> > > I 'think' that there was a way to run eagle, as root, the first time
> > > and get autorouting to work. I tried that without success. I searched
> > > for a README in the eagle docs also without success.
> > >
> > > Anyone have eagle running with autorouting care to pass on the what I
> > > have to do to get it working? I am trying with version 5.1.0-1.
> >                                                          ^ 5.10.1-1
>
> I know nothing about this program but maybe if you tell what error are
> you getting when trying to autoroute maybe someone can give you a clue on
> how to start debugging it.
>
> For what it can be read from Cadsoft website¹, the Lite Edition does not
> seem to have any restriction related to this, beyond the size of the
> board area (4 x 3.2 inches) :-?
>
> ¹http://www.cadsoftusa.com/freeware.htm

The error is that the user is running the Free Version and therefore 
autorouting is not supported.

IIRC 4-5 years ago when I first installed Eagle I got that same message.
After reading the Debian.Readme for eagle I discovered that root had to 
run eagle first and then users were able to use the autorouting feature.

apt-cache show still states that Eagle supports autorouting, and there 
are no bugs outstanding, so I think thatI there is something I am missing.

I should have been more verbose but those that do use Eagle (I think)
would have understood my first post.  My apoligies for the lack of
including the error message.

Wayne