Going back temporarliy to KiCAD 8 via Flathub?

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Hi,

since 9.0 is very unstable for me i want to go back to 8.x until things are sorted out. I’m on SteamDeck and installed KiCAD via flatpak. Tried to go back by pointing flatpak to a certain commit but the install seems to be corrupted. Anyone knows the correct procedure?

What I have tried:

sudo flatpak make-current org.kicad.KiCad stable
flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.kicad.KiCad

picked the commit from 2024-02-18 because on 19th the change to 9.0.0 happened

flatpak update --commit=39f5615cb6c01cdf3ac6222d2a21aef52572420f36b252b0da1e10e48766e08e org.kicad.KiCad stable

i got a few warnings “Warning: Removing magic mime rule from exports”, after that KiCAD was in 8.x but behaved a bit strange, like not all layers showing in pcbnew. So I did not use, don’t want to corrupt my projects.

Thanks in advance
David

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Did you save any of your project in V9.x.y ? if you did you will probably not be able to open them in V8.x.y