Description
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Cirkuit is a KDE4 interface for LaTeX graphic tools (such as TikZ, Gnuplot, Circuit Macros) to produce publication-ready pictures.

Cirkuit can also be used as a GUI for Circuit macros by Dwight Aplevich, which is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents. Cirkuit builds a live preview of the source code and can export the resulting images in various formats. Cirkuit supports also live preview of TikZ and Gnuplot sources.

Source code
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Cirkuit source code is now hosted on git.kde.org. The project homepage is http://projects.kde.org/cirkuit.

Requirements
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To run this application you need to have the following applications installed:

* latex
* m4
* gs
* dvips
* epstopdf
* ps2eps

On Debian-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu/Kubuntu) type the following command to install the required apps:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4 ghostscript pdf2svg

To build Cirkuit you need CMake and the KDE4 and Qt4 dev packages. To install them on Debian-based systems, type

sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4

Packages are also available for Arch Linux (in AUR).

To build the application from source, follow the usual KDE4/CMake procedure:

tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
sudo make install