about building spice3 for debian

[Aurelio Díaz-Ufano]

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El Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:25:16 -0600
Néstor Hernández Cruz <nesthor en inaoep.mx> escribió:

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> Hi guys,
> well I have many questions,
> first; have you ever build spice3 for debian in Ubuntu I really need
> the spice simulator but there is no package for deb, instead I found a
> recipe of making one but I can not make it function, the recipe, I
> wrote for you below, I have all the files and the libraries requested,
> but when I try to run spice3, nothing happens just the message of
> command not found or something like that.
> 
> ****************** Begining recipe Spice3*****************************
> 
> 
> ~  SPICE version 3f5 for Debian
> 
> 
> ~    1. Preface
> 
> Due to some legal issues the circuit simulation program SPICE must not
> be part of Linux distributions. Most distributions don't care about
> that, but Debian does, and so there is no official Debian package of
> SPICE.
> 
> 
> ~    2. Installation
> 
> Nevertheless, the SPICE sources are available, and anyone may build
> her own spice_3f5-3_i386.deb this way:
> 
> ~   1. install debian packages "dpkg-dev", "debhelper",
> ~      "libncurses5-dev", "libxaw7-dev", "xlibs-dev", and
> ~      "libreadline4-dev".
> ~   2. get spice3f5sbins.tar.gz (or spice3f5sbins.tgz, but then rename
> ~      it to spice3f5sbins.tar.gz) from your favorite ftp site, e.g. on
> ~      sunsite and its mirrors in apps/circuits.
> ~   3. get spice_3f5-3.dsc
> ~      <http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/%7Emcp/spicedeb/spice_3f5-3.dsc> and
> ~      spice_3f5-3.diff.gz
> ~      <http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/%7Emcp/spicedeb/spice_3f5-3.diff.gz>
> ~      and put them into the same directory as spice3f5sbins.tar.gz .
> ~      MD5 sums are:
> 
> 54170dcb65a1d9155b26fd8970c26bf4  spice_3f5-3.diff.gz
> bbc6930088473cb428d20dbce1b1c228  spice_3f5-3.dsc
> 
> ~   4.
> 
> ~      dpkg-source -x spice_3f5-3.dsc
> ~      cd spice-3f5
> 
> 
> ~   5. if you have the package "fakeroot" installed:
> 
> ~      dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc
> 
> 
> ~      else
> 
> ~      su -c "dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc"
> 
> 
> ~   6.
> 
> ~      cd ..
> ~      su -c "dpkg -i spice_3f5-3_i386.deb"
> 
> 
> The patches in spice_3f5-3.diff.gz include all patches that were
> distributed with spice3f5 anyway, plus one found in spice3f5sfix and
> some of my own to fix a lot of memory leaks and bugs in the command
> line parser to make it more stable (esp. the "alter" commands), as
> well as a temperature problem in the BSIM3 models.
> 
> 
> ~    3. Check if it works
> 
> bash> *cd /tmp*
> bash> *spice3 /usr/share/doc/spice/examples/schmitt.cir*
> 
> Spice 1 -> *run*
> Spice 2 -> *display*
> Spice 3 -> *plot V(7)*
> Spice 4 -> *quit*
> 
> 
> ~    4. Possible Problems
> 
> | However, when I try to continue installation, "dpkg-source -x
> | spice_3f5-3.dsc" returns a few errors as follows:
> |
> | x:/tmp/temp# dpkg-source -x spice_3f5-3.dsc dpkg-source: extracting
> | spice in spice-3f5 tar: .: Cannot mkdir: File exists tar: Error
> | exit delayed from previous errors dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf -
> | gave error exit status 2
> 
> This is a bug in GNU tar 1.13 appearing when you use the -k option if
> the tar file contains '.' like spice3f5sbins.tgz does. It works with
> version 1.12 and with some of the newer betas of GNU tar (for instance
> 1.13.25). Workaround:
> 
> ~      cp /usr/bin/dpkg-source /tmp
> ~      chmod +x /tmp/dpkg-source
> 
> In line 982 in /tmp/dpkg-source change
> 
> ~      exec('tar','-xkf','-')
> 
> to
> 
> ~      exec('tar','-xf','-')
> 
> Then use /tmp/dpkg-source to unpack spice.
> 
> 
> ~    3. Older Versions
> 
> spice_3f5-2 is still available here:
> 
> ~    * spice_3f5-2.dsc
> ~      <http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/%7Emcp/spicedeb/spice_3f5-2.dsc>
> ~    * spice_3f5-2.diff.gz
> ~      <http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/%7Emcp/spicedeb/spice_3f5-2.diff.gz>
> 
> spice_3f5-1 is still available here:
> 
> ~    * spice_3f5-1.dsc
> ~      <http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/%7Emcp/spicedeb/spice_3f5-1.dsc>
> ~    * spice_3f5-1.diff.gz
> ~      <http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/%7Emcp/spicedeb/spice_3f5-1.diff.gz>
> 
> *******************End Recipe*****************************************
> 
> Another question I have is how to upgrade Ubuntu using synaptic.
> But this is a minor problem.
> 
> Regards.
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