When will Kicad 8 be available for Raspberry pi.
Thanks in advance
Which model? There are so many. I’m pretty sure, for example, that it will not run on my ancient RPi 1.
Debian bookworm-backports has 8.0.7 for the arm64 and armhf architectures. Debian -- Details of package kicad in bookworm-backports
the model that I am using is 4.
If you run Raspberry Pi OS just type:
sudo apt install kicad
in a terminal.
that installs kicad 6
You can install the latest KiCad version (currently 9.0.0) from bookworm-backports.
Ensure that you have backports enabled by going to Raspberry Menu → Preferences → Add/Remove Software. Then click the Options menu → Package Sources… and check the box beside Debian Bookworm Backports
Next open a Terminal window and update the package information to get the latest backports packages:
sudo apt update
To see the available kicad versions you can ask apt to list all versions:
apt list -a kicad
On my system I currently see these versions:
Listing... Done
kicad/stable-backports 9.0.0+dfsg-1~bpo12+1 arm64
kicad/stable,now 6.0.11+dfsg-1 arm64 [installed]
kicad/stable-backports 9.0.0+dfsg-1~bpo12+1 armhf
kicad/stable 6.0.11+dfsg-1 armhf
You can then install the latest KiCad from backports using this command:
sudo apt install kicad/bookworm-backports
For completeness I should also mention that you could install the KiCad Flatpak using the instructions at Install using Flatpak | KiCad EDA to install KiCad 9 on Raspberry Pi.
HTH
does anyone know how to get kicad 8 on the pi? I need it to import cadstar files as these dont now seem to be supported in kicad 9
You can absolutely import cadstar archives into kicad 9. it has to be an archive though and cannot be a binary file. But the same is true for kicad 8.
it won’t offer the .pcb file for import. The .pcb is a binary file by the looks of it.
The docs for the project manager importer say only .csa and .cpa files are accepted. So you have the wrong kind of file.
The v8 docs for this section say the same. So v8 won’t help you. It wasn’t credible anyway that the importer would have been removed.
In Cadstar go to File->File Export then select under Format PCB Archive. This will create a .cpa file which you can then import into kicad. My understanding is that this file format is also used to move between different cadstar versions.
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