Hello, I am quite new to Linux and xschem. I apologise first if I am asking a very simple question. I used this procedure (Link here: https://gist.github.com/chiraag/248d2042df02ac759079adf25c65c2fa) to install xschem. The steps

make

and

make install

threw errors. When I examined the results of the previous step:

export xschem_ver=$(git describe --tags)
./configure --prefix=$HOME/programs/xschem/$xschem_ver \
    --user-conf-dir=$HOME/programs/conf/xschem/dotxschem \
    --user-lib-path=$HOME/programs/conf/xschem/xschem_library

I could see that there was this error:

make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
Setting prefix to '/home/sribooshan/programs/xschem/2.9.9-40-gc220391'
--- Detecting host
Looking for a shell... /bin/sh -c
Looking for a shell escape character... found: '\'
Detecting temp dir... validated /home/sribooshan/code/xschem/scconfig/
Checking for system type... OK (name: Linux; class: UNIX)
--- Detecting target (same as host)
Checking for cc (target)... OK ('gcc', ' -pipe', '')
Checking for -fpic... OK (-fPIC)
Checking for popen(3)... OK ('#define _XOPEN_SOURCE\n', '' and '')
Checking for flex... Found.
Checking for bison... Found.
Checking for XOpenDisplay... OK ('', '' and '-lX11')
Checking for tk... 8.6... OK ('', '-I/usr/include/tcl8.6' and '-ltcl8.6')
OK ('', '-I/usr/include/tcl8.6 ' and '-ltcl8.6  -ltk8.6')
Checking for awk... OK (awk)
Checking for xpm... not found
Node libs/gui/xpm/* is required but provided detection callback fails to find that feature on that system.
Aborted (core dumped)

This error persisted even after I installed xpm. Could someone please help?

I came across this same error during my the first time installation. Just install all dependencies mentioned in the site. Don't forget libraries which has a suffix called "dev". This solved my problem.

I am also trying to install the same. facing the same issue even after I installed the prerequisite with the suffix that you have mentioned

In most of cases the

libxpm-dev

is missing. -->

sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev

(on debian/ubuntu, use appropriate install commands on your specific system).

Thank you!