See also https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/12820
If those users want to keep using 4.0.7 they need to host it themselves. -Jon On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 11:38 AM Marco Ciampa <ciam...@posteo.net> wrote: > Can somebody address this request or at least point to the right > direction of how to solve it in the easiest way? > > ----- Forwarded message from Rahul Paknikar <srahul...@gmail.com> ----- > > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 18:06:47 +0530 > From: Rahul Paknikar <srahul...@gmail.com> > To: ciam...@posteo.net > Cc: SUMANTO KAR <jeetsumanto...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: KiCad 4.0.7 does not have a release file error > > Dear Marco, > > As Sumanto mentioned, we have been using KiCad for the eSim EDA tool for > several years. During these years, we made a library of ~1000 schematics > designed in KiCad's latest version (v4.0.7) at that time. So, to remain > consistent and portable with our circuits library, we continued using KiCad > 4 based on this old version. > > We take this opportunity to request your suggestions on feasible ways to > port these circuit schematics to KiCad 5 or 6. > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 3:44 PM SUMANTO KAR <jeetsumanto...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Yes, truly KiCad 4.0.7 is very old. But we are from an Open Source > > Community(https://esim.fossee.in/home). We are using KiCad 4.0.7 as a > > frontend for the Open Source Tool. So we need it. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Sumanto Kar > > > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, 15:39 Marco Ciampa, <ciam...@posteo.net> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 01:22:22PM +0530, SUMANTO KAR wrote: > >> > Hi!! > >> > > >> > We are getting the following error 'does not have a Release file' > error > >> > while installing KiCad: > >> > [image: image.png] > >> > > >> > Kindly look into it. > >> > > >> > Thanks & Regards, > >> > Sumanto Kar > >> > >> Why are you trying to install KiCad 4? It is way old! Even what comes > >> with your distribution (that is usually not so up to date) is newer! > >> Install KiCad 6! > >> > >> https://www.kicad.org/download/ubuntu/ > >> > >> sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases > >> sudo apt update > >> sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Amike, > >> Marco Ciampa > >> > > > -- > With regards, > Rahul P. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > > Amike, > Marco Ciampa > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/Y2PgWF243Gq1aicR%40ciampix-lap2022 > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CA%2BqGbCCxuhjti5WuzT3T9G%2BaKBWcOqmRGRpGnfLz97oV%2B%3D7kwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
