I'll do as you suggest John
--- In [email protected], NeonJohn <j...@...> wrote:
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> owen.grantham wrote:
> > Thanks for the tips but I either don't have the same directory
> > structure as some of the suggestions or the files are not there. I've
> > downloaded the newest copy of the documentation (1.1) as suggested by
> > Andy but am a bit concerned that they are from 2008.
> >
> > I did install from the ubuntu repositories (Build: (20080825c-final))
> > so maybe if the version is old this may not be a problem with older
> > documentation ;)
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> Looking at Synaptic package manager on my machine, I see that the docs
> have to be installed separately. In the case of US users, the synaptic
> selection is kicad-doc-en.
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> That said, I strongly urge you to delete KiCad repository install,
> download the current version binaries from sourceforce and install it.
> Not only is it the current version but everything installs nicely under
> /usr/local/kicad if you follow the installation instructions.
>
> rant mode
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> Ubuntu is screwing the pooch not keeping packages current in long term
> releases such as the Hardy Heron that I'm running. This isn't the only
> package that they've allowed to languish. Firefox is still at 3.0. I
> know, their solution is to upgrade OSs. If I had the time to spend a
> week upgrading the OS and getting everything back to normal, I can think
> of a lot of OTHER things I'd rather spend the week on.
>
> /rant mode
>
> John
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