Re: gschem only partially works
On 01/09/2016 06:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I need
> several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc machine
> tool.
>
> Now I would like to translate that to a pcb I can make.
>
Try:
info pcb "Schematic Frontends" "gEDA"
(in a terminal and with pcb-common installed)
`?' gives the keypresses for navigating the info manual...
> However, its been an exercise best described as the 10,000 monkeys with
> typewriters miraculously re-creating Shakespears works.
>
> The reason? In the help pulldown, the top 3 items that should give one
> access to the documentation for the geda suite of programs, do ANAICT
> nothing, not even a disk access spike is shown by gkrellm.
>
sounds like you are missing a -doc package
> The complete suite of programs is installed. Is there a .conf file
> someplace besides /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc to set its choice of
> browsers to use to display this stuff? iceweasel is the default,
> chromium is available, as is konqerer. Resetting the default browser to
> each of them in turn has no effect.
>
> I need some clues as to how to even trace this to see where the failure
> is. FWIW, while looking at /etc/gEDA/gschemrc, I did fix it so the
> print command worked by adding the cups defined name
> as "lp -dNetwork_printer". The default "lpr" apparently sends the job
> to /dev/null, or possibly /dev/oblivion? It never gets anywhere near a
> cups log.
>
> The same /usr/share/gEDA directory tree also contains at least 1000 .sym
> files, which are what gschem uses to draw the part symbol on the screen,
> and all that works, but no handy documentation can be displayed on
> command.
>
> Clues? I seem to have used up mine.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
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