Here is a user report which may provide some hints to folks installing from the 20060825 CDROM to Debian. Note that the user pre-added the -dev packages to his system instead of letting the installer find them. This is a perfectly acceptible – and for some preferable – way to handle gEDA’s dependencies.
Just completed an install on my main desktop box which is Debian etch/testing with patches of sid/unstable. Lib packages I had to add to my system: * libreadline5-dev * libgd1-xpm-dev * libwxgtk2.6-dev * libgtk1.2-dev (compile failed because of missing gtk-config. Configure did not seem to check for it.) * I needed to install guile-1.6-dev rather than libguile-dev. Else the installer fails to find scm_make_smob_type. On my system /usr/lib/libqthreads.so pointed to a non existing /usr/lib/libqthreads.so.12.3.1 This may be a bug in Debians packaging rules. Thus the installer failed with: gcc: /usr/lib/libqthreads.so: No such file or directory make[2]:*** [libgeda.la] Error 1 I resolved the issue by faking a link: sudo ln -s libqthreads.so.12.3.0 libqthreads.so.12.3.1