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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: Red Squirrel on April 20, 2016, 09:19:36 pm

Title: KIcad leaving lot of graphical "garbage" behind
Post by: Red Squirrel on April 20, 2016, 09:19:36 pm
I did not know the best way to explain this so here is a screenshot of what I mean:

(http://gal.redsquirrel.me/thumbs/lrg-3305-ss.png) (http://gal.redsquirrel.me/images/other/random/ss.png)

When manipulating/moving stuff it seems to make a mess.  Zooming in and out clears it.  Is this a known issue and is there a fix for it?   Using build 2013-jul-07.... actually that seems old, I installed from the PPA.  Or is that the latest stable release?

OS is Linux Mint 17.1.
Title: Re: KIcad leaving lot of graphical "garbage" behind
Post by: rolycat on April 20, 2016, 09:30:00 pm
The version you are using is ancient.

Go to kicad-pcb.org (http://kicad-pcb.org) (the official Kicad website), and get the latest version, currently 4.0.2.
Title: Re: KIcad leaving lot of graphical "garbage" behind
Post by: Red Squirrel on April 20, 2016, 09:36:56 pm
That's where I got it, it just pointed me to a PPA which I setup with the provided command. Though I think what may be happening is when I do apt-get install it's just getting it from the main repo instead of the PPA.  Is there a way to verify this or tell it to use the PPA?
Title: Re: KIcad leaving lot of graphical "garbage" behind
Post by: Red Squirrel on April 20, 2016, 09:58:02 pm
Oh just realized I forgot to do apt-get update.  I installed and now I'm at 4.0.2-4 and the issue I was having is gone now.
Title: Re: KIcad leaving lot of graphical "garbage" behind
Post by: rolycat on April 20, 2016, 10:05:37 pm
Excellent!

If you ever need to check in future, try this:

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apt-cache policy kicad
The "Candidate" line will show the version which will be installed.