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=== <br/>Introduction ===<br />
KiCad (http://kicad-pcb.org) is an open-source collection of tools for designing circuit schematics and printed circuit boards (PCB). Pretty good documentation is available at http://kicad-pcb.org/help/documentation/.<br />
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=== Ubuntu PPA For Latest Version ===<br />
KiCad binary packages are available for download for various computing platforms. KiCad is also available from the Ubuntu repository. However, the default packages in the Ubuntu repository may not be the latest version of KiCad with the critical features or bug fixes that you may need. Visit [http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ubuntu/ this page] with instructions for adding a personal package (PPA), which provides the latest version packaged by a KiCad project member.<br />
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=== Building From Source ===<br />
You may also want to build KiCad from source. Here is roughly how:<br />
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KiCad source code versioning used to be Bazaar but they recently switched to Git. Fetch the source code via<br />
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git clone https://git.launchpad.net/kicad KiCad<br />
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Inside the new folder use git to check the tags and to create a local branch of the latest tagged stable version.<br />
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git tag<br />
git checkout -b v4.0.4 4.0.4<br />
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On Ubuntu Linux install (some of) the dependencies via<br />
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sudo apt install libwxgtk3.0-dev libglew-dev libcairo2-dev libbz2-dev libboost-context-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-locale-dev<br />
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Create the ''build'' subdirectory and call ''cmake'' from there<br />
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cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=YES ..<br />
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where the flag ''KICAD_SKIP_BOOST'' prevents the generated build scripts from attempting to download and build a certain version of boost from source. For better runtime performance you may prefer to build the ''RELEASE'' configuration instead of ''DEBUG''. If performance is not critical I prefer the ''DEBUG'' configuration in order to get a more meaningful stack trace in case of a crash.<br />
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Finally, run<br />
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make<br />
sudo make install<br />
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to build and install KiCad to its default installation directory ''/usr/local''.</div>Kai