Hello,
how can I install newest KiCad Release on SLE15.6 ?
Thanks
You’ll need to subscribe to the Tumbleweed or maybe the Slowroll repos to get the v9 releases. You can check at software.opensuse.org, search for KiCad.
I’m still on v8 as I’m not sure what effect using Tumbleweed repos will have on other packages, Leap 16.0 is expected in October and I don’t really need the features in v9 at the moment.
Is flatpak an option here?
Thank you very much, it´s running. 
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Just for the search engine crowd, which method did you use?
Install instructions for KiCad on Linux using Flatpak.
flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.kicad.KiCad.flatpakref
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Hello,
I use linux since 1998, and SuSe from 2000 (approx). One of the leak of Suse is the short lifetime of OS. In 2 or 3 years you found that you can´t install anything new due repositories erased or not maintained.
So i switch to tumbleweed, is rolling code. Allways update, allways repositories, etc. Even are not all flowers since will get some of garbage, and erase some custom configurations. But the balance is positive.
Opensuse makes a release each year so I would not let an install fall behind more than one version. The same goes for distros like Ubuntu, you should upgrade to each new LTS release when it appears (every two years).
A rolling release makes too much updating noise for my liking and sometimes causes breakage as I run quite a few services on my workhorse. KiCad is just one hobby.
KiCad is a special case because it needs the latest versions of packages like wx. Container distributions of KiCad have their drawbacks too. One is the need to add the 3D models separately.
I can handle any of the alternatives. I’ve just chosen the one that minimises my annoyance given my meagre usage of KiCad. Your circumstances probably differ.