How to run KiCAD 7.0.11 and 8.0.9 together on Ubuntu 22

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Hello,

I am quite conservative in upgrading to a new version for the production version of the board. So far I have everything on KiCAD 7.0.11 and I am going to migrate to 8.0.9. It is not a problem under Windows, I just have both versions installed and it works. I would like to work more under Linux (Ubuntu 22) but I have not yet found a good solution to have these versions at the same time. I have been betting a lot on flatpack, but I found that it is a problem to install the older version there. I have also found AppImage but the Image is not available for version 7.0.11, what would you recommend?

Thank you.

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I built Docker images for running KiCad 5, 6, 7, and 8. Maybe you could use one of those or modify the images for what you need.

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These sites have appimages for several versions. The latest 7 there is 7.0.10 though.

KiCad-AppImage - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
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