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[Joseph Chen <joseph.chen59@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have  been using kicad-install.sh script to install kicad in a few of  Ubuntu-14.04, and have found the script needs more error hadnling.  Here are some areas:

1.  install_prerequisites()This function is using a single command "apt-get install" for ALL of the software packages.  It would work smoothly if ALL of the packages were available.  Unfurtunately, in the Ubuntu 14.04 case, python-wxgtk3.0 is not yet available and the command will fail for ALL of the packages.  Thus libwxgtk3.0-dev will not be installed at all (which will cause another error that needs an improved error handling.  See #2).
Suggestion:  Change to use a local loop to install each of the packages so that command "apt-get install" fails only for a single package, thus avoiding failing for ALL.
2.  CMake check listWhen libwxgtk3.0-dev is not installed, due to the faillure in #1 aboe, the CMake check part stops short during compiling, but kicad-install.sh does not detect this failed compiling and just continue to install or copy parts files and doc files into the destnated directory.  At the end, it seems all install succeeded.  But there is NO "kicad" binary installed at all, much less of the rest of the binaries.  This situation has caused confussions to me a few times already.

Suggestion:  Add a error detection inside "kicad-install.sh" so that when compiling fails the script stop installing and print out an error.  This would help a user to investigate a root cause.
--Joe Chen