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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Make sure whatever distro you are using has not built wxWidgets using
gtk3.  This is known to cause all kinds of issues.  If you disto has
done this, you will have to rebuild wxWidgets against gtk2 in order to
build KiCad.

On 8/16/2017 8:10 AM, Simon Richter 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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