[SOLVED] Rollback for KiCad 7 and Linux Debian/ Raspbian Buster

[Wombat]

Hi all,

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB edition) and have installed KiCad 6 onto it without issue, however I cannot open the projects I built using KiCad 7 on my Windows machine.
The Pi is a server that I will be using for work- since all our work PCs are locked down, I cannot run the programs I need to during the day so I have to use something that I remotely log into…

Is KiCad 7 due to be released for Debian any time soon or is there any way I can roll back my projects so they will work on KiCad 6?

Im really stuck on this one, Linux is great but there are so many roadblocks to overcome…

Thanks in advance,

Mike

[retiredfeline]

Unfortunately you cannot rollback projects done in 7.

You might find this thread informative: KiCad 7 on Debian Bullseye You would have to go to bookworm when KiCad lands in the backports for that.

[Wombat]

Interesting… so what you are saying is that KiCad will no longer be supported on Debian going forward?

[retiredfeline]

Where do you get that notion? What the discussion is saying is that you will need a recent version of Debian to support KiCad 7, in this case bookworm.

You realise that Buster is already out of security patch support since June 2022? Debian -- Debian “buster” Release Information

[Wombat]

Ok well Im pretty new to Linux so still trying to get my head around things…

I made a mistake on my post it appears I have Bullseye, not buster installed- PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)”

So here is a better question: If I want to run Kicad 7 on Raspbian, I need to wait for the Bookworm, or later version to be released then upgrade to it?

I have requested an update but Bullseye seems to be the latest version of Raspbian…

[retiredfeline]

As that thread says, it’s unlikely that Debian 7 will be backported to Bullseye.

So you’d have to wait for Rasberry Pi OS (as they have renamed themselves) to upgrade to bookworm. That may be a long time though, they are not in a hurry. Or you could try to install Debian bookworm yourself and live without the RPi OS bling.

[craftyjon]

Install KiCad using Flatpak.

[Wombat]

Thanks, will look at other options, but will also contact the Pi crowd about it.
It looks like its possible to install Bookworm manually but how stable it will be? who knows, DietPi has a stable bookworm release but I really did not like the way its set up, the GUI is pretty crappy and looks like it was not the priority of the build, seems to be a good solution for terminal based applications however…

[retiredfeline]

You’d still have to wait for Debian KiCad builder to backport KiCad. Bookworm has only been out for a month.

[Wombat]

Thank you, this has SOLVED the issue and heck the little pi is a beast, my graphics are set at 256mb and the 3d viewer works astonishingly wel for a credit card SBC.

If anyone else requires it, dump this into the terminal;

flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.kicad.KiCad.flatpakref

Admin, please mark this as Solved, cheers!