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[Gianluca Renzi <icjtqr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I will do that.
This evening I will have a look on what is installed by default on Ubuntu
19.04. Otherwise I will compile V5.1 from scratch.

Regards,

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 9:43 AM Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear Gianluca,
>
> KiCad V4 is really old. For me it's not a good idea to provide packages
> on new distributions (not even sure that it will compile without
> patches...). Normaly, you can convert your work (keep a backup
> somewhere..) to V5 or better V5.1.
> As far as I remember, KiCad V5.1 is able to open V4 project, then
> convert it.
>
> Regards,
> Le 28/08/2019 à 20:26, Gianluca Renzi a écrit :
> > Hello guys!
> > I hope everything is going well.
> > I have a request for Jean: I see you have the kicad 4 package up to
> > ubuntu 18.04. Great work indeed!
> > In those days I got a new laptop running ubuntu 19.04 and it is a x86_64
> > based.
> > I was wondering if you can have kicad 4 for this ubuntu 19.04. Yesterday
> > I tried to compile from sources but it fails due to:
> > Make Error at CMakeModules/CheckCXXSymbolExists.cmake:41
> > (_CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS):
> >   Unknown CMake command "_CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS".
> > Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >   CMakeModules/PerformFeatureChecks.cmake:86 (check_cxx_symbol_exists)
> >   CMakeLists.txt:141 (perform_feature_checks)
> >
> >
> > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> > See also
> >
> "/home/debian/packages/kicad-source-mirror-4.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> >
> > The biggest issue here I want to got all my work done in kicad 4
> > (installed in $HOME) then download the official ubuntu package then
> > convert everything to kicad 5.
> > Is it possible?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gianluca
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:41 PM Gianluca Renzi <icjtqr@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:icjtqr@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Great, thanks!
> >
> >     On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:40 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         Am 2019-02-11 10:39, schrieb Jean-Samuel Reynaud:
> >         > Dear all,
> >         >
> >         >  Please find attached a patch to adding missing support for
> Linux
> >         > platform on arch PPC and PPC64.
> >         >  It's proposed by an external user who need that...
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Regards,
> >
> >         This patch has been pushed to the KiCad source tree.  Thank you
> >         Jean-Samuel and Gianluca!
> >
> >         -S
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Ciao e buona giornata.
> >
> >     "GP! In mezzo al campo stai proprio schifoso!"
> >     Coach M.Russo
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ciao e buona giornata.
> >
> > "GP! In mezzo al campo stai proprio schifoso!"
> > Coach M.Russo
>
>

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Ciao e buona giornata.

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