gEDA 

GPL Electronic Design Automation
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README for gEDA/gaf 


- Installation

	- Install all the dependencies (glib, gtk, and guile).
	- Download all source packages and the toplevel Makefile. 
        - If you are building the CVS version, then you must also have
          autoconf, automake, libtool, and gettext installed.
	- Untar all packages in a directory and place toplevel Makefile 
          in this same directory. 
	- [OPTIONAL] Edit Makefile changing prefix to a different install 
		     directory other than the default ($HOME/geda)
	- Type: make
	- Follow instructions on setting all the shell variables.
	- Set shell variables.  *VERY IMPORTANT*
	- Type: make install
 	- Read the release notes for more information and last minute issues.
	- Read the docs in: ${prefix}/share/doc/geda-doc/gedadocs.html
	- Run: gschem and play! :-)



- System Requirements

	See section in libgeda's README



- License  

	gEDA/gaf (which includes libgeda, gschem, gnetlist, geda, setup,
	gsymcheck, gschcheck, gpcb, utils, all associated files, the
	component symbols and all the file formats) is placed under the
	GNU Public License (GPL) version 2.0.  See the various COPYING
	files for more information.

	Programs and associated files are: 
	Copyright 1998-2007 by Ales Hvezda and the respective
	original authors (which are listed on the respective files)



- gEDA Internet resources

        Homepage: http://geda.seul.org

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