OSS in hardware (was:Re: [nzlug] OSS in Nz schools)

[Ian McDonald]

On 2/7/07, Vik Olliver <vik.olliver at uiactive.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:14 +1300, Karl. wrote:
> > There is a version of Kicad in Debian Testing:
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/kicad
> >    testing (electronics): Electronic schematic and PCB design
> > software
> >    0.0.20060829-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel
> > powerpc s390 sparc
>
> Oooh! Good. I've been waiting for that to happen. Probably be a while
> before Canonical pick it up though.
>
> Vik :v)

Vik,

You might be able to just download the debian one and install using
dpkg -i. If it has other dependencies download them too and put on
same command line. Only problem will be if dependencies conflict with
your existing system.

Ian
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