How to build kicad on Debian
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First Written: 10-Mar-2009
Lasted edited by: Jerry Jacobs <jerkejacobs@gmail.com>


For debian squeeze (testing)
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Special Note
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After SVN trunk revision 1753 boost library 1.36 or higher is needed
to compile KiCad.

Installing Packages
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The following packages should be installed with
synaptic, apt-get or aptitude:
- build-essential
- cmake
- libboost-dev
- libwxgtk2.8-dev
- libglut3-dev

The following packages will also be installed then
- cmake dependencies
- boost development dependencies
- wxwidgets development dependencies
- opengl3 (glut) development dependencies


Get KiCad Sourcecode
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Checkout sourcecode using subversion or download latest release.

*Subversion*
'svn checkout https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kicad/trunk/kicad kicad'

*Release*
download http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/kicad-sources-yyyy-mm-dd.tgz'
'tar -xvf kicad-sources-yyyy-mm-dd.tgz'


Compiling
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Run 'cmake .' in the root of the source directory then build the
binaries with 'make'.


Installing
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For installing you could use 'make install' or build a debian package.