Seth, You/KiCad might consider supporting Ubuntu for the full 5 year duration that LTS releases are supported by Ubuntu. On my home machines, for instance, I run Ubuntu 20.04 right now. On my work machines, however, I run Ubuntu 18.04 right now because the cost of upgrading a distro is so significant they only do it when the Long Term Support period of 5 years is over. I shouldn't manually upgrade my own work machine if I wanted to because it must remain compatible with my work's build systems and other software. I think many companies operate this way. If you want to get KiCad to be used by more companies, which I would like to see myself, I think KiCad will need to support Ubuntu for the full 5 years of the LTS term or else it may automatically be ruled out as a potential candidate as companies evaluate software to use and support.
Thanks! Gabriel Staples On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 8:53 AM Seth Hillbrand <s...@kipro-pcb.com> wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > From the page you linked, 18.04 is not a supported system and has never > been supported for v6. We had decided some time ago that we would support > Ubuntu LTS versions for 1 year after the release of the next LTS [1]. > > Jean-Samuel, you may be able to use the mhier PPA[2] as the source for > newer Boost versions that will allow KiCad on older Ubuntus. > > -Seth > > [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg43255.html > [2] https://launchpad.net/~mhier/+archive/ubuntu/libboost-latest/+packages > > On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 6:06 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It looks like someone back ported some random number generator fixes >> from master that are not available in boost 1.56 which is the minimum >> version in the 6.0 branch. We should address this since 18.04 LTS is a >> supported system[1]. >> >> >> [1]:https://www.kicad.org/help/system-requirements/ >> >> On 5/9/22 4:05 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > As I see, since one of those commits: >> > 891c919c239223ef601284a8f166d0f229f6b030 >> > 0ea7dabc1271dbc77b8d5764e4eecbeba85903d6 >> > e1cd74dd78031b002737a79ddffcf3489d74105c >> > 4d8297a1f6f18d59cb38361b88a959d7af062480 >> > >> > KiCad is unable to build on Ubuntu 18.04. I guess it's a boost version >> > issue (Boost is 1.65.1 on Ubuntu 18.04). >> > The build error: >> > kicad/common/kiid.cpp:50:73: required from here >> > /usr/include/boost/random/detail/seed_impl.hpp:269:9: error: ‘class >> > boost::uuids::detail::seed_rng’ has no member named ‘generate’ >> > seq.generate(&storage[0], &storage[0] + ((w+31)/32) * n); >> > ~~~~^~~~~~~~ >> > >> > >> > You can take a look as the build output at >> > >> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/600354670/buildlog_ubuntu-bionic-amd64.kicad_6.0.0+nightly-202205081117+43b8adad1a~116~ubuntu18.04.1_BUILDING.txt.gz >> > (large log, error message near the end ;) >> > >> > >> > Is this version of Ubuntu is still supported for 6.0 branch ? (for me >> > yes since the Ubuntu support is up to April 2023)... >> > Note that it affect version 6.0.5 (6.0.4 was built correctly) >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] > Seth Hillbrand > *Lead Developer* > +1-530-302-5483 > Long Beach, CA > www.kipro-pcb.com i...@kipro-pcb.com > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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