I test installing the dependencies from the package manager, and then downloading the KiCad source and compiling it on a clean 16.04 machine every day and have been for a few months.
If they start to fail, I'll poke the list. Adam Wolf On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Simon Richter <simon.rich...@hogyros.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 16.08.2017 09:16, Ingo Kletti wrote: > >> Is there a preferred Linux distro/build environment? > > No, it should work in any Linux distro where the requirements can be > met. Requiring people to install a different distribution than they are > used to would be a barrier to entry. > > If there is a problem on a particular setup we want to know about it, so > we can investigate. If the build instructions don't cover a particular > distribution, we want to know about it and improve the documentation. > > The only thing that may be problematic are really old releases, but > 16.04 is certainly not too old. > > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > 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