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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
