Does anyone know if KiCad 7 will ever be available for Debian Bullseye through backports? Currently backports installs KiCad 6.
If you are determined you can compile it. How to build KiCad on Linux (the easy way) · Wiki · eelik-kicad / kicad · GitLab
Kicad 7 needs wxwidgets 3.2 which bullseye doesn’t have. Not sure if backports have it but if not then compiling is not that easy but still doable.
You can get ready to use kicad 7 build from flatpack too.
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I think it and its dependencies are in the Debian experimental branch when I looked. You might be able to get away with it if you enable that branch, install KiCad and requisites, then disable the branch. This also requires that you are not using any other packages that may depend on an older wx package. And also that the dependencies don’t pull in a whole bunch of updates of fundamental packages like libc.
Be careful not to upgrade any other packages while the experimental branch is enabled. You’d have to repeat the process when the KiCad version goes up.
Sorry, not a Debian user, so follow at your own risk.
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Good information. Thanks. I decided to just stay with backports and KiCad 6. In case anyone is interested, this is for a Chromebook. KiCad 6 seems to work well on it.
It’s very unlikely that there will be ever a backported version of KiCad in Debian Bullseye for the reason explained above. I’ve no intention to do any backporting of the wxwidgets3.2 packages for bullseye and so far also not the package maintainers of wxwidgets3.2.
For bookworm there are some prepared packages of KiCad available here: Index of /~tijuca/kicad
Once the bookworm-backports archive is opened there will uploads of backported packages available there.
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Great news! I didn’t even know about the Debian 12 Bookworm release. I’ll be looking for the update to ChromeOS Crostini. Maybe in 2 or 3 months, I hope.
There are a few packages showing up in bookworm-backports now.
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/allpackages
The back ported packages of the KiCad related trees got now accepted into bookworm-backports. I’m working on packaging version 7.0.7 for unstable, once these versions will reach testing I intend to also upload the new version 7.0.7 to bookworm-backport some days later.
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