Inexperience or BUg?
I am not sure if it is just my 'newbie' state with this, my new hobbie, or if something is indeed amiss. I have downloaded the software and run the 'Fritzing.sh' script to start the tool from my desktop (the script reports '/home/growlf/Desktop/fritz/fritz/Fritzing.sh' when I have it echo the LD_LIBRARY_PATH) - and it loads fine. Looks fantastic - and JUST what the doctor ordered!
mmm...however.. there are only two parts in the side bar - a wire and a 'Rectangular PCB'. Do I need to manually add all the parts I see images for in the directory that I extracted? I dont see a way of 'mass adding' them, and even though I located a parts-bin file and opened it too - it only added a measuring stick and breadboard tool - no resistors, capacitors or Arduino to be seen.
I am using Linux - Ubuntu 9.10 (Jaunty Jackalope) on kernel 2.6.28-13-generic.
I am hoping it is just something I missed in the README or forum posts somewhere. I did look, and since I see no one else having the issue, I am strongly suspecting it is a case of missing the obvious.
Hi Growlf.
This is definitely a bug; you should have a full parts bin when you start up. It looks like Fritzing is not finding the "Parts" directory and/or the "Bins" directory. Can you find these on your system?--they are part of the Fritzing tar, and should reside wherever that was extracted. If you see those directories, could there be a permissions issue about Fritzing accessing them? That guess exhausts all I know about Linux, so over to Mariano or Brendan for further debugging...
One more thing to check in the meantime. Another directory that should be installed with Fritzing is "sketches". If you go to the file menu and roll out among the submenus of the "Open Example..." menu item, that should lead you to choices of around 20 example files, each of which you should be able to open. Does this work for you?
- j
PS. Should be "parts" and "bins" without the caps.
I checked the files - all were set for read/write for my user/group. Oddly, there was nothing in the other folders though...
I just downloaded a fresh copy on a wild hair and re-extracted with the builtin tools of Nautilus - it works!
Must have been something I did during the extraction, please accept my appologies and disregard this issue as 'user to keyboard error' :|
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