Kicad

Compiling Kicad

To compile latest (2018-05-20) git version of kicad after a clean install of ubuntu 18.04:

• enable the source lines in /etc/apt/sources.lst

apt update
apt build-dep kicad
apt install openssh-server git bison flex libglm-dev liboce-foundation-dev liboce-ocaf-dev libboost-test-dev

git clone https://git.launchpad.net/kicad
cd kicad
cd scripts
./get_libngspice_so.sh
sudo ./get_libngspice_so.sh install
cd ..
mkdir build
cmake ..
make

warning:

CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:573 (message):
wxWidgets library has been built against GTK3, it causes a lot of problems in KiCad

On upgraded older ubuntu

Do the following before compiling kicad v5 (?):

apt remove libwxgtk3.0-0v5