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Debian Mint has this info.
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This is PCB, an interactive
printed circuit board editor
version 20110918

Compiled on Jul  2 2013 at 06:12:42

by harry eaton
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     so I guess Wheezy is a bit behind but it ran great.  Regards Ian.


On 03/31/2014 06:27 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Currently I have a Win 7 machine (host)
> We're working on building the latest gEDA for Windows, if you're
> interested in helping.
>
>> I'm just not sure if I should have used the SuSE distribution (or what
>> would make it matter).
> They're all basically the same, aside from the names of the
> development packages you need to install.  In general, it's best to
> install the latest versions of each gEDA package manually if your
> distro is behind.
>
>> I'd like to make sure I'm not headed in the wrong direction using Ubuntu.
> No problem with Ubuntu or any other linux distro :-)
>
>> Is there a way to get a distribution packages that contains the entire
>> suite of tools (gEDA schem, PCB, etc.), or must each tool's package be
>> downloaded and installed individually?
> The only distro I know of that has all the gEDA stuff by default is
> the Fedora Electronics Laboratory spin, but I suspect that's a bit
> outdated as well.
>
> Again, your best bet is to get the latest versions directly from the
> gEDA sites and build them yourself.
>