I came upon those packages yesterday, and installed it without any problems. Now I can finally start redoing my circuit layouts, which I lost when my computer crashed. That'll teach me not to back up to CD more regularly. :(
Thanks again guys for your help. Top bunch of guys that you are. Andy --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Ricardo Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.carde...@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Andrew <andrwp...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for the quick reply Andy. So which binaries do you use exactly??? > > > > I have tried using the Synaptic package manager, but the version it > > downloads is from 2009, and that version keeps crashing every time i select > > the 3D view. I am after the latest stable release > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I use the package from the 0.0.20100314 version, taken from Debian Squeeze > (I think I installed the .deb directly on Ubuntu 10.04 and it worked out of > the box), which is also available for the future Ubuntu 10.10. Actually, > after a quick glance, I'd say you can use the version for Maverick too, as > the dependencies seem to be right for 10.04. To do this, just download: > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kicad/kicad-common_0.0.20100314-1_all.deb > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kicad/kicad_0.0.20100314-1_i386.deb > > (change that "_i386.deb" to "_amd64.deb" if you're running a 64 bit > installation of Ubuntu). You may also want: > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kicad/kicad-doc-en_0.0.20100314-1_all.deb > > Once you have donwloaded the files, just run: > > $ sudo dpkg -i kicad*.deb > > in the same directory they're sitting, and you should be done. > > If you really want to use the very latest stable copy, I could explain you > how extract the "debian" directory from any working copy of the > debian-package source, which you can get from Debian's or Ubuntu's > repositories, and how to use it to produce new packages. > > In any case, try always to use packages. It's the tidiest thing to do. > > regards, > Ricardo >
