ngspice retired on epel? Help with building from source

[Ashwith Rego]

I noticed that ngspice can no longer be installed on CentOS (6.8) using yum. This page says that the package was orphaned: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/ngspice/

In any case, I tried building from source but get stuck during configure with the following message:

configure: error: Couldn't find Xext library

However both libXext and libXext-devel are installed. Could someone please help me out?

Thanks
Ashwith

[Damian Zaręba]

Check where It looks for that libs and If it looks for it on another
directory than Xext library is installed - make ln -s on it to "supposed"
place.

wt., 18.10.2016 o 14:07 użytkownik  napisał:
> I noticed that ngspice can no longer be installed on CentOS (6.8) using
> yum. This page says that the package was orphaned:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/ngspice/
>
> In any case, I tried building from source but get stuck during configure
> with the following message:
>
> configure: error: Couldn't find Xext library
>
> However both libXext and libXext-devel are installed. Could someone please
> help me out?
>
> Thanks
> Ashwith
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[Ashwith Rego]

I finally managed to figure out how to compile ngspice. For anyone
else stuck with the same problem as me, the package that was missing
is libXt-devel. Installing this allows configure to go through with no
errors. I figured this out thanks to the changelog available here:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=847908

Kind Regards
Ashwith J. Rego
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