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15 <h1 class="sectionedit29"><a name="installation_help" id="installation_help">Installation help</a></h1>
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19 This section provides some information useful to people who want to install gEDA onto their computers.
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24 <h2 class="sectionedit30"><a name="debian_distributions" id="debian_distributions">Debian distributions</a></h2>
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28 The repository of the Debian distribution contains <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=geda" class="urlextern" title="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=geda" rel="nofollow">binary packages</a> of the core geda/gaf tools including <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=gschem" class="urlextern" title="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=gschem" rel="nofollow">gschem</a>, <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=pcb" class="urlextern" title="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=pcb" rel="nofollow">pcb</a>, <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=gnucap" class="urlextern" title="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=gnucap" rel="nofollow">gnucap</a> and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=gerbv" class="urlextern" title="http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=gerbv" rel="nofollow">gerbv</a>. Due to license specifics some tools like ngspice cannot be distributed by Debian. However, the geda suite iso image will work nicely on Debian, if you have have prepared your box by installing some development packages. For more detailed information, see the <a href="geda-debian.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-debian.html">debian installation notes</a>.
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33 <h2 class="sectionedit31"><a name="fedora_and_redhat_distributions" id="fedora_and_redhat_distributions">Fedora and RedHat distributions</a></h2>
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37 For RedHat distributions you may wish to download the <a href="http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/software.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/software.html" rel="nofollow"> RPM binaries</a> prepared by Wojciech Kazubski.
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41 Since Fedora Core 5, major parts of gEDA are available from <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras?highlight(CategoryExtras)" class="urlextern" title="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras?highlight(CategoryExtras)" rel="nofollow">Fedora Core Extra</a>.
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45 For more informations read the <a href="geda-fedora_rpm_installation.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-fedora_rpm_installation.html"> fedora rpm installation notes</a>.
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50 <h2 class="sectionedit32"><a name="suse_and_opensuse_distributions" id="suse_and_opensuse_distributions">SuSE and OpenSuSE distributions</a></h2>
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54 For SuSE and OpenSuSE distributions there are rpm packages for several gEDA related programms.
55 They&#039;ve been prepared by Werner Hoch using the OpenSuSE Build Service.
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59 You can install the rpm packages with YaST, yum or any other installation tool. The packages are located in a yum repository at <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/" class="urlextern" title="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/" rel="nofollow">OpenSuSE</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/science/" class="urlextern" title="ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/science/" rel="nofollow">OpenSuSE mirror</a>.
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62 <p>
63 For more informations read the <a href="geda-suse_rpm_installation.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-suse_rpm_installation.html"> SuSE rpm installation notes</a>.
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68 <h2 class="sectionedit33"><a name="mac_osx_distributions" id="mac_osx_distributions">Mac OSX distributions</a></h2>
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72 For Mac OSX distributions you may wish to download the <a href="http://www.geda.seul.org/download.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.geda.seul.org/download.html" rel="nofollow">latest Fink binaries</a> prepared by Charles Lepple.
73 See also <a href="geda-devmacosx.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-devmacosx.html">notes on using gEDA on Mac</a>.
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78 <h2 class="sectionedit34"><a name="windows_distributions" id="windows_distributions">Windows distributions</a></h2>
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82 MinGW hooks are built into many of the gEDA applications. Therefore, knowledgeable individuals have been able to build, install, and run many of the tools on Windows systems. Also, the tools do run on Windows under the <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.cygwin.com/" rel="nofollow">Cygwin</a> environment. However, binary executables for most of the gEDA Suite are not currently distributed by the gEDA Project. If you are a developer and wish to provide ongoing support for Windows, please contact the project via the geda-user e-mailing list.
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86 Please see the <a href="geda-cygwin.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-cygwin.html">cygwin</a> page on this wiki for more information on building gEDA using cygwin.
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91 <h2 class="sectionedit35"><a name="gitunstable_testing" id="gitunstable_testing">git: Unstable/Testing</a></h2>
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95 For those already familiar with the gEDA/gaf applications and those who need the latest stuff, access to source-code repository is available. This is the latest developer source-code version of the application.<br/>
97 Installation from the Unstable/Testing repository is appropriate for those:
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100 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Seeking a solution to a specific problem that was submitted to the development team, e.g., to test the “fix” so that the developers can be informed that the “fix” works.</div>
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102 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> With significant working knowledge of the gEDA Tools and quite some knowledge in using and installing from git.</div>
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108 This usually requires access to several existing designs known to work in the current stable release of the gEDA Tools, so that comparisons can be made and issues brought to the attention of the developer/user community (via the e-mail lists or the bug tracker).
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112 Information on how to fetch the gEDA git repository can be found <a href="geda-scm.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-scm.html"> here</a>.
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