Comment 5 for bug 1337450
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| Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote Re: [Bug 1337450] Re: kicad-install.sh aborts when yum and apt-get not installed | #5 |
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On 11/16/2014 8:54 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Hi Wayne
>
> Well it could be done, but IMHO I think an arch linux user is better off
> using the kicad-bzr package on AUR rather than kicad-install.sh.
>
> What do you mean by the intention of the script? Is it that it primarily
> should prepare kicad depends on the system, and secondarily build and
> install?
>
If I am correct, the purpose of the script is to install the build
dependencies on your system and build kicad from source. If you add ||
true to the package manager check, it will ignore installing the build
dependencies on platforms that are not Debian or Red Hat based and
attempt to build kicad from source. I don't see this being a good
thing. The developers of this project have spent way too much time baby
sitting folks trying to build kicad using this script. I see this
change as making things worse in that regard, not better. That is why I
suggested checking for pacman and using it to install the build
dependencies. I don't want to have to walk someone through installing
every missing build dependency to build kicad on non Debian and Red Hat
based systems.