gEDA

GPL Electronic Design Automation
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gEDA Binary Suite


- Overview

	This a binary distribution of the gEDA Suite.  It currently
	includes:

		* gEDA/gaf (gschem and friends)
		* pcb (both the gtk+ and lesstif versions)
		* gerbv
		* xgsch2pcb 

	This package also includes all necessary dependencies in order
	to run the gEDA Suite on almost all GNU/Linux systems.

	Installation takes about 5 minutes and uninstallation is a 
	simple "rm".  The installation of the suite is completely
	independent from any system libraries and should not interfere
	any other installed software.

- System requirements

	In order to run the gEDA suite binaries your machine must
	meet the following requirements:

		* Running a GNU/Linux system released after October 2001
		* Have installed and correctly configured the X Window 
	    	  system
		* Have at least 200M disk space free (half of which is
		  used by the installer and can be deleted after
		  installation)

	There have been a report that the Linux binaries do work under
	NetBSD, but your milage may vary.

- Installation

	To install the suite:

		* Download the appropriate tar.bz2 file

		* Verify the sigature of the tar.bz2 file by running:

			md5sum filename.tar.bz2

		  Compare the checksum with the official one from either
		  the website or announcement e-mail.  The checksums must
		  be equivalent to validate the integrity of the binaries.

		* Untar the tar.bz2 file using:

			tar xvfj filename.tar.bz2
				- or -
			bzip2 -d filename.tar.bz2
			tar xvf filename.tar

		* Run the ./install.sh in the newly untarred directory.

		* Run one of the suite programs such as:

			INSTALLDIR/bin/geda 	(this is xgsch2pcb)
			INSTALLDIR/bin/gschem 
	          	INSTALLDIR/bin/pcb 
	         	INSTALLDIR/bin/gerbv 

		* Run INSTALLDIR/bin/gschemdoc -m  to read the documentation.
	
	Please read the documentation, in particular the gsch2pcb tutorial
	if you are a new user to gEDA.


- License  

	gEDA Binary Suite Installer is Copyright (C) 2008 by Ales Hvezda 

        gEDA/gaf (which includes libgeda, gschem, gnetlist, geda, setup,
        gsymcheck, gschcheck, gpcb, utils, docs, examples, all associated
        files, the component symbols, and all the file formats) is placed
        under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2.0 or later.  See the
        various COPYING file for more information.

	Programs and associated files are: 
	Copyright (C) 1998-2008 by Ales Hvezda and the respective original
	authors (which are listed in the respective files)

	All other programs are Copyright (C) 1998-2008 by the respective
	original authors.

	All source code used in binary distribution is available on the
	gEDA website (http://geda.seul.org/dist).


- gEDA Internet resources

        Homepage: http://geda.seul.org

        Mailing lists: http://geda.seul.org/mailinglist

        For any questions related to gEDA/gaf, please subscribe and post
        to the "geda-user" mailing list.