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[Gianluca Renzi <icjtqr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, thanks!
I will give it a try on my PPC64 machine!

I have a question: at the moment I have on PPC64 ubuntu 16.04 and Kicad 4
installed from ubuntu packages. In the same machine I have compiled from
sources (as the patches of mine) Kicad 5 and installed in a different path
/opt/kicad-5 . Which is the best option?

0- backup of my projects made with Kicad 4

1- Remove Kicad 4 as Ubuntu package (apt remove ...)
    Add your ppa
    Install kicad-5.1 from your repo
    Hope for the best for converting from 4 to 5.

2- Add your ppa
   Install kicad-5.1 over the version 4
   Hope for the best for converting from 4 to 5

3- Compile 5.1 from sources and install it in another path /opt/kicad-5.1

What do you think?

Best regards,
Gianluca

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:15 AM Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > 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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