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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] running mult. versions of kicad
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Dmitry:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:25:28 +0100 (CET)
> karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> > I'm doing some pcb-rnd/pcb <-> pcbnew file conversion
> > test.
> > Is there anyone here who knows how to run kicad v4.0.7
> > and v5.1.0 side by side so I can test and compare ?
> > Currently I build and istalled kicad, footprints,
> > libraries and the 3dthings in:
> >  /usr/local/kicad_4.0.7/
> >  /usr/local/kicad_5.1.0/
> > and I can start them as /usr/local/kicad_xxx/bin/pcbnew,
> > but they are using the same config files in
> > ~/.config/kicad/.
> I would try to create two separate folders to be used as
> home directories for each kicad instance, then launch it
> with $HOME environment variable set to point to
> appropriate directory. Hopefully, kicad will
> use /.config/kicad/ subdirectories from these "homes". E.g.:
> 
> $ mkdir /tmp/kicad4home /tmp/kicad5home
> $ HOME=/tmp/kicad4home /usr/local/kicad_407/bin/pcbnew
> $ HOME=/tmp/kicad5home /usr/local/kicad_510/bin/pcbnew

To sum up, that seems to work with some pain.

///

I tested with
 mkdir -p ~/kicad/{4.0.7,5.1.0}
and
 HOME=/home/karl/kicad/4.0.7 /usr/local/kicad_4.0.7/bin/pcbnew
and it worked fine except that it cannot find 3dlibraries.

5.1.0 was a pain to configure the fp paths and such.

Running
 HOME=/home/karl/kicad/4.0.7 /usr/local/kicad_4.0.7/bin/kicad
doesn't work, since it couldn't (?) find its associated binaries
for some reason.
Adding a
 export PATH=/usr/local/kicad_4.0.7/bin:$PATH
didn't help.

So, how do the kicad devs do this, or do they just forget about any 
older version than bleading edge ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar