Hi Ruth, Am Montag, dem 28.06.2021 um 19:55 +0100 schrieb Ruth Ivimey-Cook: > I think the initial problem with flatpak was that I couldn't figure > out how to install kicad. Things like "flatpak search flathub KiCad" > don't return useful results. You can leave out the remote from flatpak search commands. It will always search all your active remotes. > However, I then found the problem with flatpak was that I needed > kicad 5.99, not 5.1, because a key part I had was a 5.99 format > symbol & footprint and I don't know of any way to downgrade that to > the earlier format. There is no "backwards" converter for symbols/footprints in the 5.99 format, AFAIK. So yes, if you depend on certain 5.99 symbols/footprints, there is no point in running 5.1. > Running this with "flatpak run org.kicad.KiCad" runs the application, > but the fonts problem (very small fonts for native wx widgets) is not > resolved. We decided to keep the 5.1 flatpak on wx 3.0, and switch to wx 3.1 for 6.0 (and 5.99). So again, another reason for you to skip 5.1, I guess.
I read from your messages, that you can already run 5.99 successfully, but if you want to try, I'd be excited to hear how building the kicad- nightly flatpak works for you. Johannes
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