See also https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/12820
If those users want to keep using 4.0.7 they need to host it themselves. -Jon On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 11:38 AM Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote: > Can somebody address this request or at least point to the right > direction of how to solve it in the easiest way? > > ----- Forwarded message from Rahul Paknikar <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 18:06:47 +0530 > From: Rahul Paknikar <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: SUMANTO KAR <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: KiCad 4.0.7 does not have a release file error > > Dear Marco, > > As Sumanto mentioned, we have been using KiCad for the eSim EDA tool for > several years. During these years, we made a library of ~1000 schematics > designed in KiCad's latest version (v4.0.7) at that time. So, to remain > consistent and portable with our circuits library, we continued using KiCad > 4 based on this old version. > > We take this opportunity to request your suggestions on feasible ways to > port these circuit schematics to KiCad 5 or 6. > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 3:44 PM SUMANTO KAR <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Yes, truly KiCad 4.0.7 is very old. But we are from an Open Source > > Community(https://esim.fossee.in/home). We are using KiCad 4.0.7 as a > > frontend for the Open Source Tool. So we need it. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Sumanto Kar > > > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, 15:39 Marco Ciampa, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 01:22:22PM +0530, SUMANTO KAR wrote: > >> > Hi!! > >> > > >> > We are getting the following error 'does not have a Release file' > error > >> > while installing KiCad: > >> > [image: image.png] > >> > > >> > Kindly look into it. > >> > > >> > Thanks & Regards, > >> > Sumanto Kar > >> > >> Why are you trying to install KiCad 4? It is way old! Even what comes > >> with your distribution (that is usually not so up to date) is newer! > >> Install KiCad 6! > >> > >> https://www.kicad.org/download/ubuntu/ > >> > >> sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases > >> sudo apt update > >> sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Amike, > >> Marco Ciampa > >> > > > -- > With regards, > Rahul P. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > > Amike, > Marco Ciampa > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/Y2PgWF243Gq1aicR%40ciampix-lap2022 > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CA%2BqGbCCxuhjti5WuzT3T9G%2BaKBWcOqmRGRpGnfLz97oV%2B%3D7kwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
