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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/28/2014 08:47 AM, Michael McCormack wrote:
> This might be a bit off topic - I would like to know what distro and what branch is used
> to Kicad development.
> 
> Background - I use Linux only for development of embedded systems, and would like to get
> relatively recent copies of Kicad, Spice, Code::Blocks, OpenOCD, GDB, etc.  But every off
> the shelf distro seems to only have two year old releases of at least one of these
> packages and as a result, when I try to install from source I run into innumerable library
> problems because of the old libraries that are invariably required.  I will say at the
> moment, I'm not sure that Kicad is one of the packages I use that requires cutting edge
> libraries; but, I am trying to get ready for the next rebuild of my PC. 
> 
> I don't want to become a Linux systems guru, I want to remain an embedded developer; so is
> there an off the shelf distro that is used for development of Kicad?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike


You should become a Linux systems guru.

It is not mutually exclusive with being an embedded developer.  Your brain is big enough.