X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-UW-Orig-Sender: fpm AT homer03 DOT u DOT washington DOT edu Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:22:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: "Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Subject: Re: KiCad, was Re: [geda-user] Stay or go? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <98D1C4E4-581D-4A03-94E4-E0330960EADF AT wellesley DOT edu>

User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LRH 1217 2009-02-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 6.2.1.2493963, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2016.8.15.151216 X-PMX-Server: mxout26.s.uw.edu X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report=' TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_2999 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, DATE_TZ_NA 0, IN_REP_TO 0, LEGITIMATE_NEGATE 0, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS 0, MSG_THREAD 0, REFERENCES 0, SINGLE_URI_IN_BODY 0, __ANY_URI 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FORWARDED_MSG 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HTTPS_URI 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __REFERENCES 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SINGLE_URI_TEXT 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0, __TO_IN_SUBJECT 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __URI_IN_BODY 0, __URI_NS , __URI_WITH_PATH 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > On 07/25/2016 11:48 AM, Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) [via > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >>> One big drawback to KiCad that I ran into a little less than a year >>> ago is that it's very difficult to get running if you're using a Linux >>> installation more than, say, a month old. I'm not one of those guys who >>> reinstalls my OS at the drop of a hat (I come from the commercial UNIX >>> world, not the Windows world) so that just doesn't work for me. >> >> That's old information, at least in Debian - known in some places as one >> of the least bleeding-edge distributions. For the current "stable" version >> (Jessie), you can either get an older version of Kicad or get a relatively >> recent release with some substantial enhancements with the debian-backports >> version - i.e. compatible with jessie. I would think that Ubuntu has as >> current a version. If you're still running wheezy (oldstable), only the >> older version will be readily available. > > No, this is current information. The version in the repository > accessible by my Ubuntu system dates from May of 2011. That's why I > tried (and failed) to compile from sources in the first place. > > If you have the answer, I'm all ears. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA As indicated, I was talking about Debian. Ubuntu is usually faster to adopt the latest versions - closer to Debian 'testing', so I'm a bit surprised by your description. For Debian, just go to: https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages and search for 'kicad', for 'any' Distribution. It should list the versions just as I'd described them. I don't run any Ubuntu machines so I can't say anything about current Debian-Ubuntu cross-compatibility. Even within Debian there can be surprises - I'm running a 4.6 backported kernel on my home machine, but can't compile my own kernel as I ordinarily do. -Frank p.s. Sorry for the late reply I've been away.