Re: Anybody get spice to install on Linux?

Ohmster writes:
I used to have a program called "Electronic Workshop" and it was
great. You could put transistors, resistors, and all kinds of electronic
parts on a board and then "run" the circuit to see how it would
behave. It seems that some other fellow was so impressed with Electronic
Workshop that he started a thing called "spice" which is the same thing
only free for Linux.

Not quite. Spice is much older than Linux.

I downloaded the tarball, extracted it, did the ./configure, the make,
moved all docs to "doc-pak" and then ran checkinstall "checkinstall –R
make install". The thing failed miserably, were at make(5) by the time
the thing gave up.

You haven't given enough information, but most likely you failed to install
the build dependencies.

Hopwever, installing Spice from source is probably not what you want
anyway. See if any of these packages are available from your Fedora
repositories:

gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package
gspiceui - A graphical user interface for gnucap and ngspice
gwave - a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators
oregano - tool for schematical capture of electronic circuits
easyspice - A graphical frontend to the Spice simulator
avrp - Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers
cl-rlc - Common Lisp RLC Circuit Simulator
electric - electrical CAD system
geda-examples - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software -- example designs
gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design
gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package
gpsim - Simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers
gsmc - Smith Chart calculator for impedance matching
gspiceui - A graphical user interface for gnucap and ngspice
gtkwave - a VCD (Value Change Dump) file waveform viewer
kicad - Electronic schematic and PCB design software
klogic - digital circuit editor and simulator for KDE
ksimus - KDE tool for simulating electrical circuits
ktechlab - circuit simulator for microcontrollers and electronics
linsmith - a tool to generate Smith Charts
oregano - tool for schematical capture of electronic circuits
pcb - printed circuit board (pcb) design program
qucs - Quite Universal Circuit Simulator
tkgate - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk
vbs - Verilog Behavioral Simulation
xcircuit - Draw circuit schematics or almost anything
xsmc-calc - Smith Chart calculator for X
easyspice - A graphical frontend to the Spice simulator
eagle - Printed circuit board design tool

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