On 13/07/17 13:16, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:02:29 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:43:56 -0400, rickman wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, I forgot about the Unix thing.  FreePCB is a windows only program.
>>>
>> So is TinyCAD.
>>
>> So, it looks rather like I should go for KiCad, particularly as it is in
>> the standard Fedora repository. Its also a Debian Jessie package, so
>> next time my RPi is running its worth a check to see if its been ported
>> to Raspbian.
>
> I've just checked - kicad is available for Raspbian Jessie, but its
> fairly big. Installing it needs 458 MB of SD card space.
>
> apt-get doesn't say which kicad version would be installed. Since I
> already have the Fedora version installed on my laptop I'm not about to
> install it on the RPi just to see what version is on offer, but its nice
> to know its available.
>
>
version I have on MINT is "2013 july stable."

so pretty old

Just added the PPA to get latest.

http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html

says how to port it so cpuld be made to work on a pi, but I rather
undertsood rhe Pi to be the target of the final PCB, rather then the
development plaftform for it.


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