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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Ubuntu 19.04, this is version 5.0.2 by default (but not available for
PPC). Instead of recompiling, you can also use ppa
(ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5.1) but only for PPC64.

Regards,

Le 29/08/2019 à 09:49, Gianluca Renzi a écrit :
> 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 <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto:icjtqr@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:icjtqr@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Great, thanks!
>     >
>     >     On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:40 PM Seth Hillbrand
>     <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     >     <mailto: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
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     >
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> 
> 
> 
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> 
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