Hi, > I'm stuck. My old PCLinuxOS distro had a version of KiCAD and I was > happy. However, I can't get any new installs to work on my 2007 distro. > KiCAD doesn't show up on Synaptic either. > > I'd like to build it from the source, but can't figure out what I'm > doing wrong. KiCAD doesn't follow the normal Configure>Make- > instal>Install routine.
Do you really need a distro specific package or building from source? I tried Kicad on some distros with the simple copy method, as written in INSTALL.txt. It seems working, on the minimalistic Puppy linux, too. :-) Peter
