KiCad 5.99 installed on Ubuntu Mate ... How to Launch the Program?

Well, I downloaded everything, I think, and I don’t have an icon anywhere on my DE to launch the program.

I don’t know what to do at the moment.

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@hermit
V5.99 not V5.1.9 … for clarity.

Also, got a nice Ubuntu Mate Internal Error while trying to just browse location: /usr/share/kicad-nightly

Oh this V6 release is going to be a ton of fun!

I use the locate utility. It has to be installed and initialized. sudo updatedb After that you can search with ‘locate bin/kicad’.

In the terminal:
kicad-nightly

This one is going to be interesting…

Don’t mind those gtk messages, they happen with any wxwidgets app.

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I’ve complained once of those gtk messages, and was told that they’re unimportant.

Up until recently KiCad-nightly was also added to the “start menu” (Linux Mint Menu in my case) but yesterday it disapeared.

This has also already been reported (at least twice) and a fix already commited:


I did not see the fix in the latest nightly, maybe tomorrow.
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Well, I wanna know if it disappeared from the breakfast and dinner bar as well.

Might give us some indication of how many beers were consumed before the infraction…

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