Johannes,
Thanks for asking... I think the initial problem with flatpak was
that I couldn't figure out how to install kicad. Things like
"flatpak search flathub KiCad" don't return useful results.
However, I then found the problem with flatpak was that I needed
kicad 5.99, not 5.1, because a key part I had was a 5.99 format
symbol & footprint and I don't know of any way to downgrade
that to the earlier format.
Running the flatpak command does:
> flatpak install flathub org.kicad.KiCad
Note that the directories
'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/ruth/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'
are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the
session is restarted.
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Looking for matches…
Required runtime for org.kicad.KiCad/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08) found in remote flathub
... and then I installed version 5.1.10:
$ flatpak list
Name
Application ID
Version Branch Installation
Name
Application ID Version Branch
Installation
Freedesktop Platform
org.freedesktop.Platform 20.08.13 20.08 system
Mesa
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 21.1.1 20.08 system
nvidia-465-19-01
…desktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-465-19-01 1.4 system
Intel
org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 20.08 system
openh264
org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.0 system
Breeze Gtk theme
org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze 3.22 system
KiCad
org.kicad.KiCad 5.1.10 stable system
KiCad Footprint Libraries
org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Footprints stable system
KiCad 3D Model Libraries
org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Packages3D stable system
KiCad Schematic Symbol L…
org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Symbols stable system
KiCad Templates
org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Templates stable system
Running this with "flatpak run org.kicad.KiCad" runs the
application, but the fonts problem (very small fonts for native wx
widgets) is not resolved.
This is the version info:
Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.10, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.71.1-DEV GnuTLS/3.6.15 (NSS/3.49.2)
(OpenSSL/1.1.1k) zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.3.0
Platform: Linux 5.11.0-22-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian,
wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.76.0
OpenCASCADE Technology: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.71.1-DEV
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
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