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I'm still on version 5 due to apt/snap issues I'm still on 5.1.x as snapping is broken. Not apt/snap, but proximity snap. In 5.1.x the best way to place a grou
by contingencies 4y ago
I'm still on version 5 due to apt/snap issues
I'm still on 5.1.x as snapping is broken. Not apt/snap, but proximity snap. In 5.1.x the best way to place a group is to use https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins 'replicate layout' (components and traces). See also, right click and Select ... Same schematic sheet (components only).
- duped 4y agoI believe GP is referring to the `snap` package manager on Linux, not snapping in the UI.
- contingencies 4y agoYes, hence the clarification ("Aww, snap.") Incidentally, Ubuntu forced people to move to buggy 6.x at some point circa mid last year - another reason to avoid such distributions.
- duped 4y agoUbuntu didn't force people to move at all, at least any more than the normal apt-update. Last I checked though, to install Kicad with apt you needed to manually add a PPA - it wasn't available from the distro at all.
- contingencies 4y agoMy point precisely, for them a 'normal' update includes precluding the ongoing use of a working package and replacing it with a novel and buggy one. No idea on the current state, I've largely stopped using Ubuntu.
- delfinom 4y agoOur KiCad 6 was on its own PPA you would have had to add manually. Same for KiCad 7 which has its own PPA. None of this is automated. Ubuntu/Canoical itself may have pulled a kicad package update from Debian. But we have no say over that process in Ubuntu.