Hello all,
I just installed KiCad 5 from Debian Stretch backports. After successfully entering a simple circuit and building a PCB from it I am trying to run a simulation.
As of the docunentation there should be a menu item Tools→Simulator, but it is not there. I already tried to install the ngspice debian package, but that does not change anything. I tried all projects from the /usr/share/kicad/demos/simulation folder.
Any hint on how to analyse or fix this problem would be very welcome.
Kind regards
Stephan
Most likely the Debian package you have was compiled without the simulator support. Ask Debian people to include the simulator (libngspice).
Tom
This is currently not possible, the kicad package is in main but main doesn’t have a ngspice package. Since ngspice 28 is DFSG clean and also prepared, but need to go through the NEW queue.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ngspice
So, once ngspice is available in main we can also link against libngspice ans also do later an upload to backports.
Thank you very much for this information!