I’m trying to install kicad 9 on my arm64 Ubuntu 25.04 (plucky) platform, without success.
The defaults available through snap is 6.0.2 and repo is 8.0.8.
There is a flatpak but it can’t be installed due to some error (seems to be a known issue, I’ve seen many posts reporting this problem).
I found this ppa Index of /kicad/kicad-9.0-releases/ubuntu which seems to contain all kicad-* packages but the most essential kicad package itself, for arm64 platform is NOT there.
Can anyone help?
I don’t see any arm64 build for the stable branch, but there are some for the nightlies.
https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kicad/kicad-9.0-nightly/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kicad/
Have you tried:
I was able to install and use that nightly/testing version now. Thanks!
Can you say what version got installed? In the Windows environment Nightly and Testing are 9.0.x and 9.99, very different products
Testing is for the stable 9.0.x series; Nightly for the unstable development branch 9.99.
Exactly, as @enok71 said “that nightly/testing” I was trying to find out which he was talking about.
This inconsistent naming between OS confuses everyone.