What is the reason that you want to move back to 6.0.2 from 6.0.3?
I can’t move forward to 6.0.4, either, or I would do that. None of my apt commands will let me install 6.0.4. If you’ve got a magic command that would let me do that, I’m down with that. Note that 6.0.4 isn’t building, as far as I can tell.
I need to move from 6.0.3 because 6.0.3 is quite horribly broken (the developers have acknowledged this).
6.0.3 has a major bug affecting schematic ERC among other things. We unreleased 6.0.3 and made a 6.0.4
@retiredfeline Thanks for that pointer. I now see that the issue is that the .debs aren’t building for Ubuntu 20.04.
So, I can’t go forward and I can’t go backward. 
I guess I’ll just have to wait for the developers to unwind this.
Buzmeg you sound quite proficient on Linux. I am in the same boat as you waiting on a 6.0.4. I am on Ubuntu Mate 20.04 which is updated within the last day or so and there seems to be no 6.0.4 available thus far.
Sorry, it seems to be a build issue then. I’m not on Ubuntu/Mint anyway. I just upgraded to 6.0.4 on openSUSE.
I was in the same position so ended up building 6.0.4 for Ubuntu 20.04 so I could finish a project on the weekend.
I ran into this issue as well on Linux Mint - 6.0.3 is unusable and 6.0.4 is unavailable.
Fortunately I was able to roll back to a 6.0.2 snapshot using Timeshift.
Mintupdate lets you ignore the current update for specified packages, which then disappear from the update list. Roll on 6.0.4.
Same problem here on Ubuntu 20.04, hope it will be fixed soon.
I see new builds, but the .deb files still seem to have failed to build.
Build was successful:
kicad_6.0.4-0-202203211721+6f826c9f35~116~ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb
Just installed on Ubuntu 20.04 and all looks good.
Can also confirm. Unconnected errors are gone.
Thanks to the dev team. This had to be stressful.
Hi
I know the problem is solved, but for future if somebody will need .deb for specific version is all available on launchpad. You only need to select view package details, and show suspended packets.
- Here is the actual link rather than a screenshot:
Packages in “PPA for KiCad: 6.0 releases” : PPA for KiCad: 6.0 releases : “KiCad” team
And the filtered link:
- From whence should we have discovered that link? The link of the “Install on Ubuntu” page goes to here:
https://launchpad.net/~kicad/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-6.0-releases
To get to that screenshot you have to know to drill down into “View Package Details” and then choose “Superseded” and then filter by it.
- How come nobody could tell us this earlier?
People were looking HARD for a fix and couldn’t find this. Just a simple pointer to that 6.0.2 .deb would have been a godsend and would have dramatically reduced the pressure on the dev team for a fix.
That’s not actually what the problem was btw. The kicad build failed for 6.0.4 due to a silly bug in the build process and thus it was unavailable on launchpad
I noticed that only the KiCad package itself has been updated to 6.0.4 on Ubuntu - all the libraries etc. are still marked as the unreleased version 6.0.3. A cosmetic issue, I am sure, but is there any chance of an update?
I would say producing 6.0.4 versions of those packages is not important. At most you are behind by a few library entries, and it would make everybody subscribed to the PPA generate download traffic which is significant for the 3D models. 6.0.5 packages will supersede them anyway.
Significant download traffic? With annual global internet traffic now in the zettabytes thanks to VoD, just how “significant” is a few megabytes for updated 3D models? And 6.0.5 could be months away.
Newcomers to Linux and/or KiCad who have read the dire warnings about serious issues with 6.0.3 may find it worrying to see multiple packages being installed, all tagged with that version.
Not everybody has the luxury of broadband. And the 3D models package is several hundreds of MB, if you check. I doubt anybody will notice the patch level discrepancy. Sometimes you almost have to beat people up to get them to report their version.
The ideal situation is for the package updates to be transparent to the user, the manager just notifies that there is a newer version and it’s accepted. My distro gets dozens of updated packages a week. If you asked me what patch level such and such a package is up to I couldn’t tell your of the top of my head. The delay in 6.0.4 for Ubuntu was a hiccup that did not happen to other distros and platforms.
Now if course if all distros implemented delta packages and packagers used it, there would be no download volume issues.
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