# Installer 20060825 on Debian install notes

Here is a user report which may provide some hints to folks installing from the 20060825 CDROM to Debian. Note that the user pre-added the -dev packages to his system instead of letting the installer find them. This is a perfectly acceptible – and for some preferable – way to handle gEDA’s dependencies.

    Just completed an install on my main desktop box which is Debian
    etch/testing with patches of sid/unstable.

    Lib packages I had to add to my system:
            * libreadline5-dev
            * libgd1-xpm-dev
            * libwxgtk2.6-dev
            * libgtk1.2-dev (compile failed because of missing gtk-config.
              Configure did not seem to check for it.)
            * I needed to install guile-1.6-dev rather than libguile-dev.
              Else the installer fails to find scm_make_smob_type.

    On my system /usr/lib/libqthreads.so pointed to a non existing
    /usr/lib/libqthreads.so.12.3.1 This may be a bug in Debians packaging
    rules. Thus the installer failed with:
            gcc: /usr/lib/libqthreads.so: No such file or directory make[2]:*** [libgeda.la] Error 1
    I resolved the issue by faking a link:
            sudo ln -s libqthreads.so.12.3.0 libqthreads.so.12.3.1