KiCad-Nigthly on Linux Mint It hasn't been updated for a week

I checked on the cern website for download and this version is dated 21/07.
versions ago.
Normally the linux repositories are a bit behind but not, but it seems so much.

Maybe they went on vacation to the sea. :wink:

Linux Mint 21 has been released. Maybe full upgrade will help?

Not every single day, surely ( I don’t check daily).
I don’t think it is carved in stone that there will be a daily update, even as the name suggests.

Maybe there was time and effort spent on the 6.0.7 release instead?
Maybe developers had a rest … watched TV, ate pizzas and snoozed for a change; perhaps took in a little northern hemisphere summer sunshine?

It usually means the build machine is wedged. The builds are automated, so they should get built every night, even if there are no changes (though it’s been a long time since we’ve had 24 hours with no changes).

That’s a surprise!
As a group of volunteers, I’d thought all keyboards would fall silent simultaneously, occasionally.

Thanks for the clarification, and thanks for the continuing superb efforts. :+1:

I have checked but an upgrade tool from 20.3 to 21 is not yet available.

Mint uses the Ubuntu PPA. The Ubuntu PPA is down due to a recent merge of simulator changes. The only breakage should have been if ngspice < 37 was used but we are apparently using ngspice 37 in the PPA. Unknown when someone will look at it.

Probability calculations sometimes run counter to hunches, like in the birthday paradox. Take a very simplified example where each dev makes a change only 1 day in 5. If you have 20 devs then

$ bc -q
0.8000^20
.0115

meaning the chance of everybody being quiet on a particular day is just over 1%. Of course this is simplistic, devs are not uniform. But it shows how exponents can cascade.

My thoughts were high summer, like Christmas week, would be quieter periods.

Is anyone knowledgeable willing to look into the Ubuntu PPA build failure?

Still no updates.
I am not aware of the method for building the PPA

I try to understand how PPA can be built .

The update tool is available.
I did the update but it failed and had to restore a previous image.

Still no updates for me.
Are others also still stuck on the version from the end of July?
Maybe it’s getting time to create a gitlab issue for this.

Application: KiCad

Version: 6.99.0-unknown-f8b157a1fb~149~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.4
	FreeType 2.10.1
	HarfBuzz 2.6.4
	FontConfig 2.13.1
	libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, xfce, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Jul 21 2022 06:48:01
	wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.71.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.68.0
	ngspice: 37
	Compiler: GCC 9.4.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

problem already created on gitlab for which weeks.

It’s building now, so soon it will either work again or we’ll see what the next problem is to fix.

Should be updated now

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Yipeee :tada: :tada: :tada:

Application: KiCad

Version: 6.99.0-unknown-af34835fdf~150~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
FreeType 2.10.1
HarfBuzz 2.6.4
FontConfig 2.13.1
libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Linux 5.4.0-124-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, cinnamon, x11

Build Info:
Date: Aug 20 2022 18:43:37
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.68.0
ngspice: 37
Compiler: GCC 9.4.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Works for me too now, and the related gitlab/issue/12177 is also closed.

Just updated to Mint 21 “Vanessa” using the update tool. Went smoothly. Then I added the Kicad nightly PPA. That went OK as well. I’m happy.

It seems Ubuntu PPA fails to build again