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Installation help

This section provides some information useful to people who want to install gEDA onto their computers.

Debian distributions

For Debian distributions, you may wish to download the latest DEB binaries prepared by Hamish Moffatt.

Fedora and RedHat distributions

For RedHat distributions you may wish to download the RPM binaries prepared by Wojciech Kazubski.

Since Fedora Core 5, major parts of gEDA are available from Fedora Core Extra.

For more informations read the fedora rpm installation notes.

SuSE and OpenSuSE distributions

For SuSE and OpenSuSE distributions there are rpm packages for several gEDA related programms. They’ve been prepared by Werner Hoch using the OpenSuSE Build Service.

You can install the rpm packages with YaST, yum or any other installation tool. The packages are located in a yum repository at OpenSuSE mirror.

For more informations read the SuSE rpm installation notes.

Mac OSX distributions

For Mac OSX distributions you may wish to download the latest Fink binaries prepared by Charles Lepple.

"gEDA Tools Suite" CD-ROM

If there are no current packages for your distribution available, the recommended method is installation from the “gEDA Tools Suite” CD-ROM, prepared by Stuart Brorson. The latest version of this CD-ROM is available on-line for free download as an ISO image from the gEDA Downloads web-page.

Burn this ISO image to a CD-ROM using your favorite CD burning software. Insert the CD-ROM, and if your computer supports autodetection of the CD-ROM, the built-in installation wizzard will launch.

For more informations read the gEDA Tools Suite installation notes

CVS Unstable/Testing

For those already familiar with the gEDA/gaf applications and those who need the latest stuff, access to the CVS repository is available. This is the latest developer source-code version of the application.
Installation from CVS is appropriate for those:

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).