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