Disable nightly builds install

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Hello!

Mostly everything in the title.
I’m working on Ubuntu 22.11.
I had setup the nightly builds when Kicad 7 was almost ready for release, at the beginning
of the year. Now I would like to disable nightly builds updates. How can I do that?
NB: I suppose there is some kind of ppa remove, but if anybody could give me the
right command (or a link to a page explaining how to do), it would be great.

Regards,

R

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Are you getting nightly build updates now, even without 7.99 installed?

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Have a look in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory.

Then remove (or move it to another location) the file for KiCad nightly. (you need root privileges to change those files)

or simply uninstall it with:

sudo apt remove kicad-nigtly

It does not seem very logical to keep 7.99 installed and only freeze updates. About the only changes between V7.0 and V7.99 is a few preleminary peeks at new functions, and that the latter has more bugs.

Ubuntu probably has some gui thing to do this too, but I don’t use Ubuntu, but Mint (Both Debian based) and GUI stuff is a bit different.

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@paulvdh

I interpret Roboya’s post as:
He was using 6 and loaded 6.99 at the beginning of the year to try 7. Now he has 7 he no longer wants nightly updates (which for him will be 6.99 updates). I don’t think he has installed 7.99.

I do not know if 7.99 updates will show for 6.99 installation as I have already installed 7.99 (so I am getting updates for 7.99). Do you get nightly updates for 7.99 with only 6.99 installed?

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On my Linux Mint box, KiCad-nightly V6.99 updated itself to KiCad-nightly V7.99

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Thanks, mine didn’t update 'till I clicked the appropriate link. I assumed @roboya s worked the same way.

Agree then, probably best for Roboya to uninstall 7.99.

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Hello guys!

Thanks for your replies. I could finally manage to get 7.0 installed. I have removed kicad-nightly with
the sudo command, and then I was back to 6.0, and therefore I had to reinstall 7.0 with add repository,
update and install.

It works now.

R.

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