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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: Red Squirrel on April 20, 2016, 09:19:36 pm
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Excellent!
If you ever need to check in future, try this:
apt-cache policy kicad
The "Candidate" line will show the version which will be installed.