Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't
On Friday 15 January 2016 23:35:53 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > Since the gEDA kit in the repo's seems to be rather broken, I
> > thought I'd give eagle another chance, so I downloaded, from the
> > cadsoft site, the latest 64 bit linux installer, but can't find a
> > help file, and obviously I am not training my monkeys correctly.
> >
> > Has anyone else had any luck, running it after convincing the
> > installer where you wanted it installed?
> >
> > I have cd'd to its base directory, and exported EAGLEDIR=`pwd' so it
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is that verbatim? I'd put an actual absolute path there. The second
> 'tic' is not a backtick.
>
Probably a typu Chris. Ancient fingers & all that. It does show
correctly in an env query.
> Do backsticks actually work in this case?
Sure!
> > shows in that shells env report, but it can't find its executable
> > with both hands, prefering to give me a
> > gene@coyote:~/eagle-7.5.0$ bin/eagle
> > bash: bin/eagle: No such file or directory
> >
> > Clues? I'm confused enough without this.
>
> You could try and use the find command to see where it actually is.
> I use a locate variant e.g.
Whats the matter with "ls -laR", its right there where I said it was.
Even has exec perms.
> # apt-cache show mlocate
Point being, I gave up on eagle. gEDA to the rescue, and I already have
some very nearly working gcode from gEDA/pcb. Some fine tuning to do
like 10x bigger solder pads for the outside world connections, and
potentially about a 50% shrink as I want to make several of these by
step & repeat. I need 3 instantly, and there may be a potential market
for a few.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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