Installing latest version on Debian 13 (trixie)

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I’ve been using kicad 9.0.2 (and now 9.0.3) under Debian 12 (bookworm); I installed it via the Debian repository “backports.” I’ve just completed a fresh install of Debian 13 (trixie) and I don’t know how to install kicad for this OS version.

kicad 9.0.2 is available from the Debian 13 repo but as I said, I updated my old Debian 12 to 9.0.3; I would like to stay on the same version of kicad.

If I am understanding the official Debian documentation, it essentially says that when a new version of the OS is released (trixie), then the previous version’s (bookworm’s) backports should be referenced as bookworm-backports-sloppy - I tried this but there is no kicad there. I then tried the “proper way” and attempted to pull kicad 9.0.3 from trixie-backports but also, kicad isn’t there either. I can, however, under Debian 13, pull kicad 9.0.3 from bookworm-backports (not “-sloppy”) but as I understand it, this is a big no-no.

So how can I get kicad 9.0.3 on Debian 13?

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9.0.2 and 9.0.3 are compatible in that you will be able to exchange projects. You’ll just be missing bug fixes in 9.0.3 so if you are not affected by a bug it won’t get in your way. The latest is 9.0.4, maybe it’ll turn up in trixie soon. You’d have to ask the Debian maintainer for KiCad.

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I just updated to Debian 13 and installed KiCad 9.0.4 using flatpak.

To integrate flatpak into Debian’s gnome software application I followed the instructions here:
https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-flatpak-on-debian-linux/