Help to install

[leoheck]

It is always hard to install this. Can you help me?
Tried master version and the default version from the package manager

plotkicadsch/plotkicadsch on  master took 3s 
➜ opam install plotkicadsch      

<><> Synchronising pinned packages ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
[plotkicadsch.0.5.2] no changes from git+file:///home/lheck/Dropbox/kicad-plugins/plotkicadsch#master

Sorry, no solution found: there seems to be a problem with your request.

No solution found, exiting

[leoheck]

I don't have this 4.06.0, should I create this?

Like this:

opam switch create 4.06.0

If Yes, it will be nice to add this to the README.

[leoheck]

Still no luck

➜ opam install plotkicadsch
[ERROR] Sorry, resolution of the request timed out.
        Try to specify a simpler request, use a different solver, or increase the
        allowed time by setting OPAMSOLVERTIMEOUT to a bigger value (currently,
        it is set to 60.0 seconds).

[leoheck]

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

[leoheck]

Is it possible to remove the $ in front of the commands in the README.md too? It will make the copy-paste processes so much easier?

[leoheck]

Suppose I have a clean OS install, which is actually the truth right now. Does the steps cover the whole opam install?

I started with:

sudo apt install opam

Then I followed your steps..

[leoheck]

Should I install another package?
They are not installed by default and the install process does not install them..

[leoheck]

Good, after some time, I made it. This was my process..

# Install 

opam init

opam install --switch 4.06.0 plotkicadsch
eval $(opam env)
opam switch 4.06.0
opam update

opam install -y --jobs=8 --deps-only .
opam install .

[jnavila]

Thanks! Will update the guide with your procedure from scratch.

Anyway, the next version of plotkicadsch is on its way to opam.

[leoheck]

Anyway, the next version of plotkicadsch is on its way to opam.

Cool! And sorry for the number of unconnected messages. I was struggling to make it work very late at night.

[leardilap]

just a comment: is opam 4.06.0 really the correct version?
I see the travis file with OCAML_VERSION=4.07
in a clean Centos8 system I did this:

# install opam according to your distro, in my case (centos8) was
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.sh
sudo sh install.sh

opam switch 4.07.0 # at this point it showed two errors \
[ERROR] Opam has not been initialised, please run 'opam init' \
[ERROR] No switch 4.07.0 is currently installed. Did you mean 'opam switch create 4.07.0'

# suggestion for instructions
opam init
opam switch create 4.07.0
eval `opam config env`
opam update
opam install plotkicadsch

[leoheck]

Just to adding here a second try to install this using an almost clean Ubuntu docker

# Schematic Diffs
run apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends m4
run apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends rsync
run apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends mercurial
run apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends darcs
run apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends opam
run git clone https://github.com/jnavila/plotkicadsch.git
run cd plotkicadsch
run opam init --disable-sandboxing
run opam switch create 4.06.0
run eval $(opam env)
run opam switch 4.06.0
run opam update
run opam install -y --jobs=8 --deps-only .
run opam install .

Maybe the last 2 lines can be reverted to the original opam install plotkicadsch

[leoheck]

This is the issue I was having before. Trying to install it on another ubuntu machine.

[leoheck]

Using this 4.07.0 works out of the box. @leardilap @jnavila

This is solves my problem too. Thanks,
#34 (comment)

Maybe this can accelerate the last step (for me it is installing 226 packages) :)

opam install -y --jobs=8 plotkicadsch

[jnavila]

Maybe this can accelerate the last step (for me it is installing 226 packages) :)

opam install -y --jobs=8 plotkicadsch

Building locally gets you the "development" version, whereas your stanza builds the version tagged in opam. @leardilap wants to have the "development" version which adds the ability to search for schematics in sub-directories of a project.

[leoheck]

Oh, I see, I want to have this feature too. I was not able to install it in any way.
The trick was this 4.07.0 instead of this 4.06.0. Maybe is good to update this in the README.md

I was not able to build it locally yet