Puppy Fossa 64bit
Anyone managed to install a fully working KiCad 8 in fossa - or any Puppy, really?
Yes, it's possible to install v5 from petget, but I need to look at some projects created in v8, and they aren't backwards compatible.
The KiCad install instructions for Ubuntu go like this:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kicad/kicad-8.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kicad
So I modified these to use the pkg manager in Puppy:
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pkg add-repo ppa:kicad/kicad-8.0-releases
pkg ru ppa:kicad/kicad-8.0-releases
pkg repo focal-kicad
pkg add kicad
This seemed to install OK, but errored out when I tried to run KiCad:
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root# kicad
kicad: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre2-32.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root#
I installed the libpcre2-32 package using petget, and then KiCad would start up OK.
However, none of the functions I wish to use will run.
example, trying to open a pcb file:
I even tried installing via flatpak, and boy what a sh*tshow that system is. I seemed to get KiCad installed as a flatpak but it crashed wildly whenever I tried to do anything.
Finally I've tried compiling, but even though I think I probably have the dependencies installed, kicad requires cmake v3.21 or better and the toolchain in devx for fossa has cmake 3.16.3
so I'm at a standstill.