Re: Anybody get spice to install on Linux?

John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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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 â??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.

Yeah, I know, but there was so much *** wrong that it would take forever
to try and grab a screencap of the make process. I just see tons of work
ahead to try and get this to work and it might not work in the end anyway
so I knew enough to just stop.

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

This sounds like an A1 idea, let me try that first and let you know how
it works. Thank you very much.

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Cheers,

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