About 8.0.7 update ... please help

Schematic Simulation (Ngspice)
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Hello averyone, i may have broken something, just updated the ubuntu and in the list of things of changes was the update from kicad 8.0 to > 8.0.7, the only error i got when updating was ngspice

dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
/var/cache/apt/archives/ngspice_36+ds-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb

so i googled and from a similar problem with video drivers on an older forum i found to do
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite

and i did it, and now my Kicad does not simulate anymore, (closes without warning) i really need it, please, how to undo this or over overwrite, not sure if uninstall kicad and ngspice totally form computer and reinstall only kicad is a good idea.
thanks in advance.

Nico.

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Which Ubuntu version?

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Hi, 22.04.5 LTS, the updater has been blinking for more than a month so i decided to update, and was a 1.4Gb of downloaded files

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sudo apt remove "*ngspice*"
sudo apt install kicad

See Couldn't find symbol 'ngCM_Input_Path' in a dynamic library: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libngspice.so.0: undefined symbol: ngCM_Input_Path

ngspice shared lib is distributed with KiCad. Standalone /var/cache/apt/archives/ngspice_36+ds-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb is much too old.

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On 24.04 LTS, ngspice comes in the package libngspice-kicad.
This is version 43, the 24.04 default ngpice is version 42

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OMG it works! genius both, thanks a lot, best software EVER.

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