Re: Anybody get spice to install on Linux?

John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:8763zwihmj.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

[snip]
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 desig

This is good ***, I am saving this as a text file and will try them out
one at at time. I just installed gnucap but cannot figure out how to work
it. Apparently there is no menu item for it and it is a CLI program. Have
to read up on it a bit to see if it will work for me. Thanks for the
great tips, Happy Thanksgiving John.

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