Different Nigthly verison Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04

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I had create a KiCad Eeschma file n a Ubuntu 24.04 using the apt install kicad-nigthly version. The file is tagged inside as (version 20250901).

When I try to open in the kicad-nigthly on a Ubuntu 22.04, I am getting the

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I already try to upgrade the Kicad, that is versioned as:

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 9.99.0-unknown-344fab5741~186~ubuntu22.04.1, release build
Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.11.1
	HarfBuzz 2.7.4
	FontConfig 2.13.1
	libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.19
Platform: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, ubuntu, wayland
OpenGL: Intel, Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-S), 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3
Build Info:
	Date: Sep  4 2025 04:07:20

Are we having some issues on compilation distributions? In particular with Ubuntu 22.04, since the compilation is dated as 04-Sep-2025.

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Compiling KiCad on older LTS versions gets into many dependency problems.

If you are experimenting with bleeding edge Nightlies, why stick to 22.04?

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The Ubuntu 22.04 is my working computer. I can not upgrade the OS.

Am I checking the wrong release page? In this, appear the 22.04 had a release:

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Launchpad is basically abandoned by Canonical even though it’s the only way to deploy packages. What you are seeing is the broken UI (thats been like this for more than a decade)

What you have to do on that page is click this link on the side:

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And then it’ll show you the real package status

And find the right package and expand it to see builds failing

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The 22.04 build should be fixed tomorrow.