Kicad 9 package for arm64 Ubuntu Plucky missing in PPA

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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?

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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/

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Have you tried:

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I was able to install and use that nightly/testing version now. Thanks!

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Can you say what version got installed? In the Windows environment Nightly and Testing are 9.0.x and 9.99, very different products

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Testing is for the stable 9.0.x series; Nightly for the unstable development branch 9.99.

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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.

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I used this ppa: Index of /kicad/kicad-9.0-nightly/ubuntu
And the version information from the “About” dialog looks like 9.0.2:

Application: KiCad aarch64 on aarch64

Version: 9.0.2-unknown-202505112106~9e17baecbc~ubuntu25.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.6
	FreeType 2.13.3
	HarfBuzz 10.2.0
	FontConfig 2.15.0
	libcurl/8.12.1 OpenSSL/3.4.1 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.6 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.2 libssh2/1.11.1 nghttp2/1.64.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.9

Platform: Ubuntu 25.04, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, ubuntu, wayland
OpenGL: freedreno, Adreno X1-85, 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.3-1ubuntu2

Build Info:
	Date: May 11 2025 21:06:10
	wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.83.0
	OCC: 7.8.1
	Curl: 8.12.1
	ngspice: 44.2
	Compiler: GCC 14.2.0 with C++ ABI 1019
	KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale: 
	Lang: en_US
	Enc: UTF-8
	Num: 1,234.5
	Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)
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