I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

Do you have Freecad installed, by any chance?

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 15:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

No, Freecad is NOT installed ... is there a dependency ??

Dave


On 18/10/2022 15:29, Robert wrote:

Do you have Freecad installed, by any chance?

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 15:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

No, Freecad is NOT installed ... is there a dependency ??

Dave


On 18/10/2022 15:29, Robert wrote:

Do you have Freecad installed, by any chance?

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 15:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

A while back I discovered the hard way that there was a library
compatibility problem having both Kicad and the latest version of
Freecad installed on Linux (hopefully now fixed). So we at least we
now know that that is not the problem, though of course it could be some
app other than Freecad causing the same problem.

I think the next thing to do is take a closer look at the output from
apt install.

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 16:10, David Slipper wrote:

No, Freecad is NOT installed ... is there a dependency ??

Dave


On 18/10/2022 15:29, Robert wrote:

Do you have Freecad installed, by any chance?

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 15:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu "ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions including the following via the shell :-

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

This was under a clean install of Ubuntu ... the only thing installed
prior to Kicad was "Notepad++" under "Wine"

Perhaps that has some bearing ?

I'll try again later today and post the screen dump.

Dave


On 18/10/2022 16:21, Robert wrote:

A while back I discovered the hard way that there was a library
compatibility problem having both Kicad and the latest version of
Freecad installed on Linux (hopefully now fixed).?? So we at least we
now know that that is not the problem, though of course it could be some
app other than Freecad causing the same problem.

I think the next thing to do is take a closer look at the output from
apt install.

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 16:10, David Slipper wrote:

No, Freecad is NOT installed ... is there a dependency ??

Dave


On 18/10/2022 15:29, Robert wrote:

Do you have Freecad installed, by any chance?

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 15:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

I don't use Ubuntu as a main OS (I have Kbuntu on an old laptop and kicad
5 is listed in the repo) I use debian on the workstation, and i had to
jump through a few hoops getting Kicad6 installed.

First, have you followed the instructions here:



It gives two methods, one of which is the command line option that you
have listed.

If install via the software manager as suggested does not work I would
suggest that you try installing the Kicad version in the provided repos,
which will usually be Kicad 5.9 something

If that installs OK then you are not missing something important in the
basic install.

Other than that then as has been suggested it's a dive into the output of
apt.

Andy

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:26:29 +0100
"David Slipper" <softfoot@...> wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu "ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions including the following via the shell :-

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

Have you run sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 09:29 Donald H Locker via <dhlocker=[email protected]> wrote:

According to my machine log entry, I installed kicad version "6.0.2+dfsg-1" using Synaptic on 06 Aug 2022 with no problems on my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS; 64-bit; GNOME 42.4:

==========8<----------------
[Synaptic] install kicad (included: kicad-{demos,footprints,libraries,symbols,templates},lib{blas3,freeimage3,fortran5,glew2.2,limbase25,jxr0,lapack3,ngspice0,occt-{data-exchange-7.5,foundation-7.5,modeling-algorithms-7.5,modeling-data-7.5,ocaf-7.5,visualization-7.5}openexr25,tbb2,tbbmalloc2,wxbase3.0-0v5,wxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5},python3-{numpy,wxgtk4.0},xsltproc)
----------------8>==========

I hope that's not too cryptic. It? means clicked the "Mark for Installation" box; when accepted, the listed packages were installed. At that time I did not have FreeCAD installed; that was installed on 13 Aug.

HTH,
Donald.

On 10/18/22 10:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu "ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions including the following via the shell :-

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

Which software manager there are several, Muon, Synaptic...?

Kicad should be in the main repo

I would first try to install libglew2.2 on it's own.
2.2.0-4 is available for jammy 22.04LTS so it should install.

The requirement is >= libglew2.2.0-4) so check exactly what version you
have in your repo lists, as has been mentioned make sure you have run
update - the base download install WILL NOT contain the latest versions of
things.

Installing Kicad 5 might not be what you want, but it MIGHT install the
correct libs, especially if Kicad is in the main repo.

(The problem does sound very much like you have not got the latest
updates)

If you really really get stuck, the flatpak version should run.

I ran that when my previous Linux install SUSE got upset when SUSE messed
up the latest version ant the time, and packages vanished from the reop
which made life rather hard, hence the move to debian.

It's quite usable as is but the sandboxing flatpak does caused me a few
issues with additional drive access. If you just run it as-is then it's
OK.
Andy


On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:27:41 +0100
"David Slipper" <softfoot@...> wrote:

Kicad is not known by the software manager.

I need Kicad v6.

The terminal method yields :-

Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
?kicad : Depends: libglew2.2 (>= 2.2.0-4) but it is not installable
???????? Depends: libocct-data-exchange-7.5 but it is not going to be
installed
???????? Depends: libocct-foundation-7.5 but it is not going to be
installed
???????? Depends: libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5 but it is not going
to be installed
???????? Depends: libocct-modeling-data-7.5 but it is not going to be
installed
???????? Depends: libocct-ocaf-7.5 but it is not going to be installed
???????? Depends: libwxbase3.0-0v5 (>= 3.0.5.1+dfsg) but it is not
installable
???????? Depends: libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 (>= 3.0.5.1+dfsg) but it is not
installable
???????? Depends: python3-wxgtk4.0 but it is not installable
???????? Depends: libngspice-kicad but it is not installable or
????????????????? libngspice0 but it is not installable
???????? Recommends: kicad-libraries but it is not going to be installed
???????? Recommends: kicad-doc-en but it is not going to be installed
???????? Recommends: kicad-demos but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Regards,
Dave


On 18/10/2022 17:02, Andy wrote:

I don't use Ubuntu as a main OS (I have Kbuntu on an old laptop and kicad
5 is listed in the repo) I use debian on the workstation, and i had to
jump through a few hoops getting Kicad6 installed.

First, have you followed the instructions here:



It gives two methods, one of which is the command line option that you
have listed.

If install via the software manager as suggested does not work I would
suggest that you try installing the Kicad version in the provided repos,
which will usually be Kicad 5.9 something

If that installs OK then you are not missing something important in the
basic install.

Other than that then as has been suggested it's a dive into the output of
apt.

Andy

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:26:29 +0100
"David Slipper" <softfoot@...> wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave

This was under a clean install of Ubuntu ... the only thing installed
prior to Kicad was "Notepad++" under "Wine"
Perhaps that has some bearing ?
I'll try again later today and post the screen dump.
Dave
On 18/10/2022 16:21, Robert wrote:

A while back I discovered the hard way that there was a library
compatibility problem having both Kicad and the latest version of
Freecad installed on Linux (hopefully now fixed). So we at least we
now know that that is not the problem, though of course it could be some
app other than Freecad causing the same problem.

I think the next thing to do is take a closer look at the output from
apt install.

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 16:10, David Slipper wrote:

No, Freecad is NOT installed ... is there a dependency ??

Dave


On 18/10/2022 15:29, Robert wrote:

Do you have Freecad installed, by any chance?

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/10/2022 15:26, David Slipper wrote:

I am looking to migrate from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
"ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64" and have tried several suggestions
including the following via the shell :-

|sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases sudo apt
update sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad|

They all fail in a similar way it was unable to install certain
dependant libraries (I'll try to get a screen dump tomorrow).

Any help/advice welcome.

Dave