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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I test installing the dependencies from the package manager, and then
downloading the KiCad source and compiling it on a clean 16.04 machine
every day and have been for a few months.

If they start to fail, I'll poke the list.

Adam Wolf

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16.08.2017 09:16, Ingo Kletti wrote:
>
>> Is there a preferred Linux distro/build environment?
>
> No, it should work in any Linux distro where the requirements can be
> met. Requiring people to install a different distribution than they are
> used to would be a barrier to entry.
>
> If there is a problem on a particular setup we want to know about it, so
> we can investigate. If the build instructions don't cover a particular
> distribution, we want to know about it and improve the documentation.
>
> The only thing that may be problematic are really old releases, but
> 16.04 is certainly not too old.
>
>    Simon
>
>
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