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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.

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