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Installing KiCAD from the repositories gives you a couple silly options. Directly installing gets you a seriously outdated version and installing a FLATPAK which seems to be rather broken. | |||
Installing KiCAD from the repositories gives you a couple silly options. | |||
So, let's try building it from source. | So, let's try building it from source. | ||
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* <code>sudo make install</code> | * <code>sudo make install</code> | ||
== AAANNNDDD... == | == <span style="color: rgb(132, 63, 161);">'''AAANNNDDD...'''</span> == | ||
WTF? | WTF? | ||
'''kicad: error while loading shared libraries: libkigal.so.9.0.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory''' | '''kicad: error while loading shared libraries: libkigal.so.9.0.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory''' | ||
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Installing KiCAD from the repositories gives you a couple silly options. Directly installing gets you a seriously outdated version and installing a FLATPAK which seems to be rather broken.
So, let's try building it from source.
(Based on: KiCAD Developer Documentation / Building KiCad from Source)
The required tools:
sudo apt install git cmake
Get the source:
Note: This builds a non-stable version. (Whatever state the code is currently in...)
git clone https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror kicad
or maybe:
Note: This should build a stable version. (You can change branch to match current stable version...)
git clone https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror --branch 9.0 kicad
The prerequisites:
sudo apt install swig libwxgtk3.2-dev libboost1.74-all-dev libglew-dev libglm-dev libglut-dev libcairo-dev python3-dev wxpython-tools libcurl4-openssl-dev libgit2-dev libngspice0-dev libharfbuzz-dev libocct-data-exchange-dev unixodbc-dev libgtk-3-dev libsecret-1-dev libnng-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
Notes:
Took a bit of further digging to learn about adding libnng-dev, libprotobuf-dev and protobuf-compiler
Set it up:
cd kicad/mkdir -p build/releasecd build/releasecmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DKICAD_USE_CMAKE_FINDPROTOBUF=ON ../../
Build it:
make -j$(nproc --ignore=2)
Install it:
sudo make install
AAANNNDDD...
WTF?
kicad: error while loading shared libraries: libkigal.so.9.0.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory