How to build kicad on Debian ============================ First Written: 10-Mar-2009 Lasted edited by: Jerry Jacobs For debian squeeze (testing) ---------------------------- Installing Packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~ Run 'cmake .' in the root of the source directory then build the binaries with 'make'. Installing ~~~~~~~~~~ For installing you could use 'make install' or build a debian package.