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Re: Linux bundle

 

We all owe Adam a great deal of thanks for taking on this task.  This
should save our users a lot of grief by eliminating the need to build
kicad from source.  It should also save the developers a lot of time
trying to help users build kicad from source.

Wayne

On 10/20/2014 10:41 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> As Nick says, I backported the utopic packages to trusty.  Also,
> providing Windows, Mac, and Linux easy-to-use binary packages is a high
> priority for the KiCad team right now--we're working on it, I promise!
> 
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer,
> W&L, LLC
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     We have it in a PPA.
> 
>     https://launchpad.net/~adamwolf/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-trusty-backports
> 
>     2014-10-20 16:38 GMT+02:00 Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>     > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 04:19:06PM +0200, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>     >> KiCad carries every library it depends on in the bundle (in
>     contrast to
>     >> e.g., linux).
>     >
>     > [...]
>     >
>     > Since there are so few linux distros with the brand new
>     python-wxgtk3.0
>     > installed, not even last Ubuntu LTS (so no-go for two years at
>     least...),
>     > why not consider an installer that installs all needed libraries
>     in one
>     > comfortable /opt/kicad subdir?
>     >
>     > bye
>     >
>     > --
>     >
>     >
>     > Marco Ciampa
>     >
>     > I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
>     >
>     > +--------------------+
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>     > | FSFE fellow   #364 |
>     > +--------------------+
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