Fritz for linux
Hi,
I see fritz for linux big file tan windows version, why ?
Regards
Denny
Hi Denny,
It has to do with the way external libraries are linked in windows and linux as well as how the Qt GUI library that we use is designed. You can read up on the shared library systems here:
DLL - used by MS Windows
ELF - used by Linux
When we get our debian packages put together properly, the Linux binaries will be much smaller as they won't need to include all of the dependent libraries.
-Brendan
It would be nice if Fritzing becomes a supported application by Ubuntu Linux distro. I would see it in the 'educational' section.
Yves
Hi Yves,
The bottleneck here is probably with Fritzing. When we had Linux expertise in-house, we didn't get around to making a proper Debian package, and now we don't have the chops. It also may be an issue that Fritzing tends to adopt Qt releases sooner than the platform does.
Nevertheless, EMarshal has managed it for Fedora, and there has been some progress on Ubuntu, but it would be nice to find a volunteer who could wrap it up.
Since I'm on the topic of Ubuntu, we are still building under 8.04LTS, and I wonder if we should move to 10.04LTS. Anybody out there still working with Fritzing under Hardy Heron?
Cheers,
- j
Hello Jonathan, Fritzing works fine with my Ubuntu 11.04 installation, so why 10.04? Only 'cause it's LTS?
Hi LightScape,
Yes, because of LTS. Also, because we built an earlier Fritzing release with 10.04 LTS and got a number of complaints from people still running 8.04 (and this was not so far from the official end of 8.04 LTS support). So now we deliberately remain behind the curve.
- j
Hi Jon,
this is okay for me. Uncompressing the archive to a folder (I prefer /usr/share...) and creating an application starter wasn't diffcult for me. (Trust me! I know what I'm doing. ;-))
Regards,
Tom
Hi,
i've extended the fritzing package on the openSUSE Build Service to also build ubuntu packages:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=fritzing&project=home%3AHeinervdm%3Abranches%3AEducation
The build packages for openSUSE 11.4 and ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 can be found here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Heinervdm:/branches:/Education/
Debian packages weren't possible, as Debian stable has onle Qt 4.7
I can try to build the package for some other Distributions too.
Greets
Heinervdm
Wow--thanks Heinervdm!
Linux Fritzing users might the following info useful. Fritzing defaults to searching for its data folders (Bins, Parts, Sketches, Translations) in the same folder as the executable. But if you run Fritzing from the command line, you can use a -f <path> argument, so that Fritzing will look in that path for the data folders instead.
Checked in today, but not yet part of any release, if Fritzing doesn't find the data folders with the executable, and there is no -f option, then Fritzing will look for the data folders in the following places: /usr/share/fritzing, /usr/local/share/fritzing, and ~/.local/share/fritzing. I am told this will make packaging more straightforward.
Also, we got a patch from another Linux user (thanks Volker) to make the Fritzing.sh script more friendly for symlinks. This was also recently checked in, but is not yet part of a release.
Cheers,
- j
in openSUSE i just moved the Fritzing file to /usr/share/Fritzing/ and created a symlink for it in /usr/bin/
if you used Heinervdm's 1-click install your folders are /usr/bin and /usr/share/fritzing.
here is what you do:
in bash type su
enter root password
#cd /usr/bin
#mv fritzing /usr/share/fritzing/
#ln -s /usr/share/fritzing/fritzing /usr/bin/
you should now be able to run Fritzing with the paths correct.
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