As it happens, this is my first time trying KiCad, so until I can get a version of 5.1.0 that will run on my macOS 10.13 host, I will just use 5.0.2, which I found in the official CERN site, here: https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=osx/stable/
In case people still have issues with downloads I created torrents for windows and mac versions.
If you already downloaded a binary you can help seed.
kicad-5.1.0_1-i686.exe.torrent (21.6 KB)
kicad-5.1.0_1-x86_64.exe.torrent (21.6 KB)
kicad-unified-5.1.0-10_14.dmg.torrent (23.5 KB)
kicad-unified-5.1.0.dmg.torrent (23.6 KB)
Here are md5 checksums:
$ md5sum kicad*
f70478c4de8597db9402b2517cafc89c kicad-5.1.0_1-i686.exe
15a37828a81a4102cb0aaff50779696b kicad-5.1.0_1-x86_64.exe
f392321af0513a5c6920bb89ca7831c7 kicad-unified-5.1.0-10_14.dmg
923c7107d8479d340a0a663f87a32441 kicad-unified-5.1.0.dmg
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Thanks @qu1ck. By any chance, can you give checksums (say, md5) for those? The md5sum for the kicad-unified-5.1.0.dmg that I downloaded from the Futureware mirror is: f392321af0513a5c6920bb89ca7831c7
Updated my post with checksums. It appears you are right, 10.14 build and the other one for mac are identical so it will likely be fixed soon.
GitHub download links (of the installers and not the source code) added for Windows users in addition to the two existing mirrors.
macOS will get them when the packages are fixed.
This is brilliant. Thanx for providing these. When I get home tonight I’ll try to remember to add these to my torrent program and leave it running for a while so I can assist seeding.
Awesome news. But I am not installed. Because use MİNT 19. When kicad 5.1 ready for mint 19? Do you any ideas?
For 5.0 it was exactly the same repository than Ubuntu. Try that.
Of course. But KiCAD download page ubuntu contain 5.1 but mint not contain 5.1 contain 5,0,2 https://kicad.org/download/linux-mint/
I meant that you could add jsreyanayd’s 5.1 ppa. Maybe it’s the same for Ubuntu and Mint but the Mint page isn’t just updated yet.
Ok I understand. I will add 5.1 ppa maybe I install KİCAD 5.1 thank you.
This. Use the ubuntu instructions.
This reminds me that I need to split out the the Ubuntu page as a include for Mint.
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Please update your macos torrents. They have been updated.
f392321af0513a5c6920bb89ca7831c7 kicad-unified-5.1.0-10_14.dmg
923c7107d8479d340a0a663f87a32441 kicad-unified-5.1.0.dmgYep, already downloading new file.
EDIT: updated.
I started torrenting last night (after your updated message) and am now seeding. I just verified the macos torrents that I got match nickoe’s updates.
Not many seeders yet. @nickoe is it possible to add the torrents to the download web page?
The Ubuntu 5.1 PPA contains just the application and demos.
For some reason the symbol, footprint and 3D libraries used are from last year
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The 18.04 PPA does contain up to date libraries. My problem was the package manager needing some older versions to be manually removed first, an apt problem, not the PPA
Wow! The accelerated rendering in eeschema is a huuuge improvement for me on OSX. Schematic capture was my biggest churn because of the old sluggishness. This is great! Applause!
Just got 5.1 installed on two computers. All I can say is AAAAAA SHINEY ACCELERATION… but wait… AUUUUGHHH WHY
Oh to hell with it, ignore my entire below… I guess my whole sense of how netlist import/export was done before is now deprecated… PcbNew: changes from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0 == Ignore everything below here
1) Creating a netlist now pops up an extra dialog box asking where to save the file. This is a mild annoyance, but there’s no way to say “Just save the netlist to blah.net and don’t bother me”. Or is there a new feature I’ve missed somewhere that can negate this? (Verified new behavior in both 5.1 / Ubuntu 18.04LTS and Win10). More mouse clicks = bad juju in my dogma.
_2) Could someone explain the new way netlist gets imported for reference designators? Previously, one could import netlist with timestamp and reference designator. This not-often used but very powerful feature would allow one to completely re-annotate a schematic and update a PCB without munging the layout. This is very useful when doing a highly dynamic design that changes a lot, and you want to make the reference designators a little more sane/clean. What I would typically do is save schematic, export netlist, import to PCB, make sure everything is clean, DRC passes, etc, and Save a backup. Then go back to schematic, and wipe out the entire annotation of the PCB and re-annotate so everything makes reasonable order-sense. Then back to PCB, but instead of importing by refdes, I’d import by timestamp. Ta-da, all the refdes’ get changed, but the layout remains the exactly the same. _
So, is “Keep existing symbol to footprint associations” == Timestamp, and the second (no longer default) option by reference designator?
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