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On 12-01-2021 19:12, Abhijit Kshirsagar (abhijit86k AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I used to be a "relatively advanced" user of gEDA and PCB until about
> mid 2016. We had developed a sizeable library of symbols and
> footprints (largely for power electronics) which I am working to clean
> up and publish now.
>
> I have been totally away from gEDA-PCB since 2016 until now.
>
> I am now trying to set up gEDA-PCB on my computer and for my students
> (upper undergraduate and graduate) and I have many questions about the
> massive changes that seem to have happened in the meantime, as below.
>
> 1. gEDA-gaf:
>
> I recall compiling from source since the Ubuntu packages used to be
> far out of date. Today gEDA is no longer in the Ubuntu repo, but I see
> LeptonEDA (1.9.10 from March 2020).
> Is Lepton the preferred mode of getting gEDA-gaf for Ubuntu newbies?
>
> The Lepton README states that it is backwards compatible with
> gEDA-gaf, but are there more subtleties that may affect the end user
> (perhaps a slightly advanced user)?
> gEDA-gaf 1.10.2 also seems to have been released recently (Dec 2020)
>
> 2. PCB:
> The ubuntu repo contains old versions of both pcb and pcb-rnd.
> Is pcb-rnd suitable for a first-time user (of PCB) to get started
> with, or would pcb be more appropriate?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Abhijit

Hello Abhijit,

I do recognise your name from way back, welcome back ;-)

I recently upgraded pcb and geda-gaf on Ubuntu 20.20 LTS.

geda-gaf is not present at Ubuntu 20.10.LTS so I had to get the *.deb 
files from Ubutu 18.**.LTS and do a manual installation, which 
succeeded, and works flawlessly for me.

pcb-4.2.2 depends on gerbv and gschem amongst others, gerbv installs 
with apt-get.

pcb-4.2.2 tends to take half way forever to start up, I don't know why, 
I'm working on that bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/1909778) 
... I suspect gtk is having an influence as the lesstif UI fires up 
instantaneously ;-)

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman