Hi,

I create a live ebuild for compiling and installing kicad from SVN head  
under Gentoo linux.
Its now as simple as typing 'emerge kicad-live' to get kicad updated to  
the latest svn revision.

You can grab the ebuild at  
http://svn.engelkotzen.net/public/live-ebuilds/sci-electronics/kicad-live/kicad-live-0.1.ebuild
and copy it into your overlay.

Please let me know of any problem you may encounter.
Alternatively, I added this ebuild to the live-ebuilds overlay so it's  
possible to get it from layman. Here are the instructions.

To use the overlay you need to emerge layman and add the overlay:
emerge -va layman
echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf
layman -f -a live-ebuilds

You can then install kicad with
emerge -va kicad-live

If a version of kicad was already installed, you will have to unmerge it  
before you'll be able to install kicad-live:
emerge -C kicad

Finally, it might be useful to update the overlay from time to time in  
case the ebuild changes:
layman -S

HTH and thanks to the active contributors that constantly improve kicad.
David


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