Support #835
Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 8 years ago
This is a guide to install Fritzing from source on Arch Linux. Yes, there is a package in the AUR; however, I need to compile the eagle2fritzing tool and that requires a copy of the source code for Fritzing. h2. Prepare the Environment * Make sure the system is up to date: <pre> sudo pacman -Syu </pre> h2. Install Fritzing * Install a few build dependencies: <pre> sudo pacman -S qtcreator jdk8-openjdk libgit2 python2 qt5-serialport qt5-svg shared-mime-info boost </pre> * Make a working directory and switch to it: <pre> mkdir -p ~/git/fritzing && cd ~/git/fritzing </pre> * Clone the Fritzing app repo from GitHub: <pre> git clone https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app.git </pre> * Clone the Fritzing parts repo from GitHub: <pre> git clone https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-parts.git </pre> * Clone the eagle2fritzing repo from GitHub: <pre> git clone https://github.com/fritzing/eagle2fritzing.git </pre> * Compile fritzing: Open the *Qt Creator* application * Go to +File -> Open File or Project+ and navigate to the @~/git/frizting/fritzing-app@ directory and select *phoenix.pro* file. * Then go to the *Projects* tab, under *Run Settings*, add this in the field +Command Line Arguments+: <pre> cd fritzing-app -f "~/git/fritzing/fritzing-app/" -parts "~/git/fritzing/fritzing-parts/" -db "~/git/fritzing/fritzing-parts/parts.db" qmake make </pre> #* And install <pre> sudo make install </pre> *NOTE*: This is required so that Fritzing can find all the parts, examples, and other data. Use the 'db' parameter +only once+ to generate the initial parts database. * Package fritzing: After that, remove it so that for normal launches you have: <pre> tools/linux_release_script/release.sh -f "~/git/fritzing/fritzing-app/" -parts "~/git/fritzing/fritzing-parts/" </pre> * Press the *green play button* and Fritzing will compile and launch. h2. Resources * https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/wiki/1.-Building-Fritzing * https://github.com/fritzing/eagle2fritzing * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fritzing/