Hi all, I successfully installed Kicad (5.1.12-xxxxx-ubuntu20.04.1) on a Mint 20.2 MATE 64bit old ASUS laptop, using ppa:kicad/kicad-5.1-releases but I got the following error trying to install it on another laptop (same Mint installation). Any idea for help? Thanks
Can’t find a source to download version ‘4.0.7+e2-6376~61~ubuntu18.04.1’ of ‘kicad:amd64’
Can you post the output of
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-5.1-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad
and also
cat /etc/os-release
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-5.1-releases
You are about to add the following PPA:
This PPA host version of KiCad 5.1
To use it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kicad/kicad-5.1-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install kicad
to have a full install:
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad kicad-demos kicad-locale-XX kicad-doc-XX
With “XX” as you language code.
Languages availables for locales: bg ca cs de el es fi fr hu id it ja ko lt nl pl pt ru sk sl sv zh
Languages availables for doc: ca de en es fr it ja nl pl ru zh
If you don’t do a “full installation” you should be interested to install also:
** If you are using daily build AND want to stay in 5.1: **
You must remove daily build ppa from your sources and remove any existing kicad packages before installing any 5.1 version.
Keep in mind that daily build package will be always more recent than any release packages.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~kicad/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-5.1-releases
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.SuNvkHOrjn/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:443 --recv-keys FDA854F61C4D0D9572BB95E5245D5502FAD7A805
gpg: key 245D5502FAD7A805: “Launchpad PPA for KiCad” not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
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sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu focal InRelease [17,6 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.dev/stable/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Ign:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com uma InRelease
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kicad/kicad-5.1-releases/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com uma Release
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [5.608 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages [1.368 B]
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Get:17 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [64,5 kB]
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Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
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sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
kicad-doc-en
Suggested packages:
kicad-demo kicad-locale-ko | kicad-locale-ru | kicad-locale-pl | kicad-locale-pt | kicad-locale-ja
| kicad-locale-id | kicad-locale-ca | kicad-locale-it | kicad-locale-el | kicad-locale-zh
| kicad-locale-de | kicad-locale-sl | kicad-locale-cs | kicad-locale-bg | kicad-locale-sv
| kicad-locale-lt | kicad-locale-fi | kicad-locale-fr | kicad-locale-hu | kicad-locale-nl
| kicad-locale-es | kicad-locale-sk
Recommended packages:
kicad-library
E: Can’t find a source to download version ‘4.0.7+e2-6376~61~ubuntu18.04.1’ of ‘kicad:amd64’
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cat /etc/os-release
NAME=“Linux Mint”
VERSION=“20.2 (Uma)”
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME=“Linux Mint 20.2”
VERSION_ID=“20.2”
HOME_URL=“https://www.linuxmint.com/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://forums.linuxmint.com/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/”
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=“https://www.linuxmint.com/”
VERSION_CODENAME=uma
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal
Very odd. I think for some reason its not detecting your OS version. Looking at the top of the download page it says Linux mint is not officially supported so these links may/may not work 
You could try download the .deb file and manually install it. I’m not sure on the differences between Ubuntu and Mint, but since you have a working machine first have a look what version is installed:
dpkg -l | grep kicad
You should see something similar to
ii kicad 5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1 amd64 Electronic schematic and PCB design software
You can then have a look through
https://launchpad.net/~kicad/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-5.1-releases/+packages
to find the relevant .deb file, download it and manually install with
sudo dpkg -i filename.deb
You will probably run unto some dependency issues with a manual install which can be fixed with
sudo apt-get install -f
You will have to repeat the same sames to install the footprints, symbols, docs etc.
sudo dpkg -i kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb
dpkg: regarding kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb containing kicad:
kicad conflicts with liboce-foundation11
liboce-foundation11:amd64 (version 0.18.3-1build1) is present and installed.
dpkg: error processing archive kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb (–install):
conflicting packages - not installing kicad
Errors were encountered while processing:
kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb
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Removed liboce (OpenCascade), then:
sudo dpkg -i kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb
(Reading database … 516348 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb …
Unpacking kicad (5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kicad:
kicad depends on libocct-data-exchange-7.5; however:
Package libocct-data-exchange-7.5 is not installed.
kicad depends on libocct-foundation-7.5; however:
Package libocct-foundation-7.5 is not installed.
kicad depends on libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5; however:
Package libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5 is not installed.
kicad depends on libocct-modeling-data-7.5; however:
Package libocct-modeling-data-7.5 is not installed.
kicad depends on libocct-ocaf-7.5; however:
Package libocct-ocaf-7.5 is not installed.
kicad depends on python3-wxgtk4.0; however:
Package python3-wxgtk4.0 is not installed.
kicad depends on libngspice-kicad | libngspice0; however:
Package libngspice-kicad is not installed.
Package libngspice0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package kicad (–install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.3) …
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu2) …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index…
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24+linuxmint1) …
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.15-1) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
kicad
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sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Correcting dependencies… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdxflib3 libgit2-28 libgl2ps1.4 libhttp-parser2.9 libmbedcrypto3 libmbedtls12 libmbedx509-0 libpodofo0.9.6
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libngspice0 libocct-data-exchange-7.5 libocct-foundation-7.5 libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5 libocct-modeling-data-7.5 libocct-ocaf-7.5
libocct-visualization-7.5 python3-wxgtk4.0
Suggested packages:
wx3.0-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libngspice0 libocct-data-exchange-7.5 libocct-foundation-7.5 libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5 libocct-modeling-data-7.5 libocct-ocaf-7.5
libocct-visualization-7.5 python3-wxgtk4.0
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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After this operation, 123 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up kicad (5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1) …
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sudo dpkg -i kicad_5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb
(Reading database … 517189 files and directories currently installed.)
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Setting up kicad (5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1) …
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.3) …
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Kicad installed 
Now, which packages I have to install to have a complete Kicad suite?
These are the ones I have
ii kicad 5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1 amd64 Electronic schematic and PCB design software
ii kicad-demos 5.1.12-202111050916+84ad8e8a86~92~ubuntu20.04.1 all Common files used by kicad
ii kicad-doc-en 5.1.12-202111050925+1701~29~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad help files (English)
ii kicad-footprints 5.1.12-202111050920+b65732f8e~11~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad footprints (modules)
ii kicad-libraries 5.1.12-202111050917+8~ubuntu20.04.1 all meta-package for dep to all KiCad libraries (symbols, footprints, templates and 3D models)
ii kicad-packages3d 5.1.12-202111050952+0ddd5886~8~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad packages3d (3d models for footprints)
ii kicad-symbols 5.1.12-202111050921+97c0bfdd~7~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad symbols (schematic)
ii kicad-templates 5.1.12-202111050920+eca0f63~9~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad templates
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