Installing ngspice 25

[Howard Howell]

I have been too spoiled by the rpm and yum processes.  Thank you fedora
developers...

I need to run the install script to put ngspice-25 on my system.  I know
that there is a default installation, but I do not know if that meets
the current directory structure for F17 or later.  Has anyone done this,
and how did you go about it?

I know I can pass -prefix  to change the binary directory, but from what
I can tell, /usr/local/bin would appear to be ok, and /usr/sbin would be
OK, but I cannot tell if the files that for ngspice-23
in /usr/share/ngspice would be replaced.  I cannot find the /usr/share
directory referenced in the config script.  I suspect that it is created
from the several variables referring to the directories in the script,
but I cannot tell which one it would be or where the files would end up
from using search on the 17000 line configure script.

Also do I need to uninstall ngspice-23?  I have several designs that
work under 23 and I am worried that -25 version may break some of them.
Therefore I would like to have both versions available for a short time
until I can verify my current stuff works under the -25 version.

Thanks for any information.

Regards,
Les H

Can't bottom post.
./configure prefixdir = /usr should place all files in /usr.
If it configures correctly run make 
Su to root and run make install.

Hope this helps
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-----Original Message-----
From: les 
Sender: [e-mail]
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:31:07 
To: 
Reply-To: [e-mail],
    Community support for Fedora users 
Subject: Installing ngspice 25

I have been too spoiled by the rpm and yum processes.  Thank you fedora
developers...

I need to run the install script to put ngspice-25 on my system.  I know
that there is a default installation, but I do not know if that meets
the current directory structure for F17 or later.  Has anyone done this,
and how did you go about it?

I know I can pass -prefix  to change the binary directory, but from what
I can tell, /usr/local/bin would appear to be ok, and /usr/sbin would be
OK, but I cannot tell if the files that for ngspice-23
in /usr/share/ngspice would be replaced.  I cannot find the /usr/share
directory referenced in the config script.  I suspect that it is created
from the several variables referring to the directories in the script,
but I cannot tell which one it would be or where the files would end up
from using search on the 17000 line configure script.

Also do I need to uninstall ngspice-23?  I have several designs that
work under 23 and I am worried that -25 version may break some of them.
Therefore I would like to have both versions available for a short time
until I can verify my current stuff works under the -25 version.

Thanks for any information.

Regards,
Les H

[Howard Howell]

On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 18:57 +0000,
[e-mail] wrote:
> Can't bottom post.
> ./configure prefixdir = /usr should place all files in /usr.
> If it configures correctly run make 
> Su to root and run make install.
>
> Hope this helps
> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: les 
> Sender: [e-mail]
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:31:07 
> To: 
> Reply-To: [e-mail],
>    Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: Installing ngspice 25
>
> I have been too spoiled by the rpm and yum processes.  Thank you fedora
> developers...
>
> I need to run the install script to put ngspice-25 on my system.  I know
> that there is a default installation, but I do not know if that meets
> the current directory structure for F17 or later.  Has anyone done this,
> and how did you go about it?
>
> I know I can pass -prefix  to change the binary directory, but from what
> I can tell, /usr/local/bin would appear to be ok, and /usr/sbin would be
> OK, but I cannot tell if the files that for ngspice-23
> in /usr/share/ngspice would be replaced.  I cannot find the /usr/share
> directory referenced in the config script.  I suspect that it is created
> from the several variables referring to the directories in the script,
> but I cannot tell which one it would be or where the files would end up
> from using search on the 17000 line configure script.
>
> Also do I need to uninstall ngspice-23?  I have several designs that
> work under 23 and I am worried that -25 version may break some of them.
> Therefore I would like to have both versions available for a short time
> until I can verify my current stuff works under the -25 version.
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
> Regards,
> Les H

That appears to have done it.  But I appear to have overwritten my
original.  Ok, I'm trying my current simulations to see if everything is
OK.  One question is how will yum update deal with the change?

Regards,
Les H

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 03/17/2013 08:36 PM, les wrote:
> That appears to have done it.  But I appear to have overwritten my
> original.  Ok, I'm trying my current simulations to see if everything is
> OK.  One question is how will yum update deal with the change?

You made a mess when overwriting the original.
With a --prefix=/usr/local (or maybe without any prefix) your package would
be completely installed in /usr/local and both version would have been
available to you, as prefix moves everything, not just the binaries
(if the configure script is well done).

Now "rpm -V ngspice" will complain about the damage you have done to
the installed files; it is up to you to cleanup everything.
(rpm -e --justdb and then remove all the stuff you installed manually,
then yum install again)