Anybody get spice to install on Linux?
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From: Ohmster on 20 Nov 2007 16:48 I used to have a program called "Electronic Workshop" and it was great. You could put transistors, resistors, and all kinds of electronic parts on a board and then "run" the circuit to see how it would behave. It seems that some other fellow was so impressed with Electronic Workshop that he started a thing called "spice" which is the same thing only free for Linux. I downloaded the tarball, extracted it, did the ./configure, the make, moved all docs to "doc-pak" and then ran checkinstall "checkinstall �R make install". The thing failed miserably, were at make(5) by the time the thing gave up. Has anyone got spice to install on Linux and how did you do it? The program is here: http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/ Oh there are binary files, deb files for Debian. Can they be used for Fedora and if so, how? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38962&package_id= 31152 If not then what is my best bet for tracking down why my tarball install failed. I really need help with this as it seems quite daunting and if there are really 5 errors, I will not be able to find them. Many of the lines during the make said "Entering such and such directory, file not found, nothing to do, leaving". How do you go about dealing with that stuff? Thank you. -- ~Ohmster | ohmster /a/t/ ohmster dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: John Hasler on 20 Nov 2007 19:09 Ohmster writes: > I used to have a program called "Electronic Workshop" and it was > great. You could put transistors, resistors, and all kinds of electronic > parts on a board and then "run" the circuit to see how it would > behave. It seems that some other fellow was so impressed with Electronic > Workshop that he started a thing called "spice" which is the same thing > only free for Linux. Not quite. Spice is much older than Linux. > I downloaded the tarball, extracted it, did the ./configure, the make, > moved all docs to "doc-pak" and then ran checkinstall "checkinstall –R > make install". The thing failed miserably, were at make(5) by the time > the thing gave up. You haven't given enough information, but most likely you failed to install the build dependencies. Hopwever, installing Spice from source is probably not what you want anyway. See if any of these packages are available from your Fedora repositories: gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package gspiceui - A graphical user interface for gnucap and ngspice gwave - a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators oregano - tool for schematical capture of electronic circuits easyspice - A graphical frontend to the Spice simulator avrp - Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers cl-rlc - Common Lisp RLC Circuit Simulator electric - electrical CAD system geda-examples - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software -- example designs gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package gpsim - Simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers gsmc - Smith Chart calculator for impedance matching gspiceui - A graphical user interface for gnucap and ngspice gtkwave - a VCD (Value Change Dump) file waveform viewer kicad - Electronic schematic and PCB design software klogic - digital circuit editor and simulator for KDE ksimus - KDE tool for simulating electrical circuits ktechlab - circuit simulator for microcontrollers and electronics linsmith - a tool to generate Smith Charts oregano - tool for schematical capture of electronic circuits pcb - printed circuit board (pcb) design program qucs - Quite Universal Circuit Simulator tkgate - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk vbs - Verilog Behavioral Simulation xcircuit - Draw circuit schematics or almost anything xsmc-calc - Smith Chart calculator for X easyspice - A graphical frontend to the Spice simulator eagle - Printed circuit board design tool -- John Hasler john(a)dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: John Hasler on 21 Nov 2007 20:40 Ohmster writes: > I just installed gnucap but cannot figure out how to work it. Apparently > there is no menu item for it and it is a CLI program. Unlike Spice Gnucap has an interactive mode, but it does not have a built-in GUI. For that you want Gspiceui. -- John Hasler john(a)dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Ohmster on 21 Nov 2007 23:49 On 2007-11-22, John Hasler <john(a)dhh.gt.org> wrote: > Ohmster writes: >> I just installed gnucap but cannot figure out how to work it. Apparently >> there is no menu item for it and it is a CLI program. > > Unlike Spice Gnucap has an interactive mode, but it does not have a > built-in GUI. For that you want Gspiceui. I tried. I got gnucap installed but could not find a suitable rpm to get the gui installed. I am trying this one now, it seems pretty good, it is free, there are sample schematics, and even a win32 port that rocks. http://qucs.sourceforge.net/index.html I like this one so far. Thanks for the list. I am bound to find something good here and so far qucs is it. -- -- ~Ohmster | ohmster /a/t/ ohmster dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is MESSAGE BODY, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: root on 23 Nov 2007 06:17
Ohmster <root(a)dev.nul.invalid> wrote: > I used to have a program called "Electronic Workshop" and it was great. You > could put transistors, resistors, and all kinds of electronic parts on a > board and then "run" the circuit to see how it would behave. It seems that > some other fellow was so impressed with Electronic Workshop that he started > a thing called "spice" which is the same thing only free for Linux. I > downloaded the tarball, extracted it, did the ./configure, the make, moved > all docs to "doc-pak" and then ran checkinstall "checkinstall �R make > install". The thing failed miserably, were at make(5) by the time the thing > gave up. > > Has anyone got spice to install on Linux and how did you do it? The program > is here: > http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/ > > Oh there are binary files, deb files for Debian. Can they be used for > Fedora and if so, how? > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38962&package_id= > 31152 > > If not then what is my best bet for tracking down why my tarball install > failed. I really need help with this as it seems quite daunting and if > there are really 5 errors, I will not be able to find them. Many of the > lines during the make said "Entering such and such directory, file not > found, nothing to do, leaving". How do you go about dealing with that > stuff? Thank you. > I see that you might have a working solution from the other responses to your post. Your original problem sounds like a problem with checkinstall. If the original make worked then you should be able to install via make install. Checkinstall had/has problems with some versions. I think the problem is with recent versions of tar. |