I suppose this has been discussed a year ago, but I don’t have good enough imagination for a good search right now, so in case someone knows from the top of their head…
7.0.0 rc1 packages are available for f37 from copr (not the regular update repository).
I have 6.0.10 installed currently, and want to keep this while I try out the release candidate.
Is this doable somehow?
The default behaviour is that 7.0.0 rc1 upgrades over 6.0.10 with no option to have both running in parallell.
Installing the “nightlies” from https://www.kicad.org/ will give totally independent 6.0.10 and 6.99.
True, but 7.0.0 is still 6.99, so automatically runs in parallel if installed now.
When 7.0.0 is officially released it will probably ( linux ) install over 6.0.10 and 7.99 will install over 6.99.
A months worth of bug fixes is the only difference between 6.99 & 7.0.0
The only catch is if you open then save a project in 6.99, it will no longer open in 6.0.10.
It gets even better thant that. I recently installed 7.0.0 rc1 and it runs parallel to both my 6.0 and 6.99 installs.
…is 7.0 prerelease already around? care to share a download link?
Download the current “nightly” from Kicad.org.
6.99 is now called 7.0.0-rc1
6.99 is now gone on my Linux Mint. @Dawid_Cislo is probably running Windows, that would be why he still has 6.99 as well as 7.0.0-rc1
wow! freshly baked new release!
i love it.
FWIW, Windows nightly is still 6.99. And the version is from Jan 6th, although the file date is Jan 8th. It’s missing yesterday’s commits obviously.
@straubm This was my 6.99 download a couple of hours ago.
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 7.0.0-rc1-unknown-c5ef51d688~164~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.1
FreeType 2.10.1
HarfBuzz 2.6.4
FontConfig 2.13.1
libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux Mint 20.3, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, cinnamon, x11
Build Info:
Date: Jan 7 2023 20:32:58
wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.68.0
ngspice: 38
Compiler: GCC 9.4.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_EGL=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Ok, good for you 
. But I was talking Windows and there the build info date is Jan 6th.
Barring I lost my capability to read…
@straubm : I made the same mistake. Windows nightly is also v7.0rc now and installs into a new directory c:\programs\kicad\v7.0 along the old v6.99-version. But it doesn’t create a new shortcut on the desktop, so you have to start the kicad.exe manually from the bin-directory.
Thx for the heads-up. Would never have thought of that. Yes, it’s there in a 7.0 directory.
So I have a wealth of KiCads: 6.0.10., 6.99, 7.0rc 
Man, am I well off… 
Luckily, with KiCad you can use all versions on one or more seats. Otherwise the cost would be price * versions * seats.
With 6 monitors or so I even could run them simultaneously 
Make it 8 monitors and you can resurrect 5.1.12 also, just need more fingers… the joys of windows.
Linux limits to 2 versions… just 4 screens. 
'Twas a bit of a shock to lose 6.99; we’d become very friendly over the last 11 months, and no warning, it was just cut down in its prime 
7.0.0 rc1 already installs over 6.0.10, even if it is not the final release (f37 copr).
So I can have either the two of 7.0.0 rc1 and 6.99 nightly installed at the same time, or 6.99 + 6.0.10.
Not three at the time and not 7.0.0 rc1 and 6.0.10.
Yes, I’m using Windows.
Interesting to read the differences in the Linux OSs.
My God man think of your sanity !