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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