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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, use the kicad-install.sh script. [1] That works with recent deb
and rpm beased distros.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/scripts/kicad-install.sh

2014-06-28 15:47 GMT+02:00 Michael McCormack <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>
>
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