Bug 1760079

Summary: (RFE) Please branch kicad and deps for EPEL8
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Lamar Owen <lowen>
Component: kicadAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel8CC: aimylios, alain.vigne.14, errold32, gmarr, kiarakovalevsky, lkundrak, nouloug2, stevenfalco, stigpro, thibault.north
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Description Lamar Owen 2019-10-09 19:05:35 UTC
Please branch kicad for EPEL8

Comment 1 Lamar Owen 2020-06-11 20:01:29 UTC
FWIW, after much wrangling I have been successful in building KiCAD 5.1.5 from Fedora 32 on CentOS 8.  I ran into issues with the vtk build related to \text sequences in the doxygen-generated _formulas.tex file, so I rebuilt vtk without the docs, and replacing the conditional "0%{fedora} >=30" with "0%{rhel} >= 8" throughout the vtk SPEC.  The blt package also required some hand-patching.  Required the latest CentOS 8 sip from git, with the build of python3-wx-siplib allowed.  Will be going back through the build process once C8.2 is released to see what changed....

Comment 2 Nicolas FORMICHELLA 2021-06-29 15:52:01 UTC
Hello,

Any news on Kicad in EPEL8?

Comment 3 Nicolas FORMICHELLA 2021-06-29 15:54:32 UTC
I'm ready to help if that is not an issue

Comment 4 Nicolas FORMICHELLA 2021-07-07 22:17:37 UTC
(New email adress, same guy)

Hello,

Has someone noticed my request?

Comment 5 Steven A. Falco 2021-07-08 14:19:05 UTC
I don't know if this would help you, but it is very easy to install KiCAD on both Centos8 and on RHEL8 via the flatpak described on KiCAD's web site:

https://www.kicad.org/download/flatpak/

I've tested it, and it works great.  I used the Terminal command shown there to do the install.  Once it completed, I had a KiCAD application icon in my applications folder, and clicking it started KiCAD as expected.

I didn't have to do any setup for flatpak prior to installing KiCAD - flatpak is already built into Centos8 and RHEL8.

Comment 6 Alain V. 2022-06-29 08:51:06 UTC
What is the status of this bug ? Do you think an EPEL 8, EPEL 9 package is required ? Or just follow the flatpak path ?
I guess if a package is needed, the latest KiCad version is expected (it might not build for EPEL 8 / 9 ?)

Comment 7 Steven A. Falco 2022-06-29 15:26:09 UTC
The last time I looked at this there were a lot of dependencies that would have to be built before an EPEL package could be attempted.  I'm not aware of anyone who is working on that.

As I recommended in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1760079#c5 I think the flatpak would be a better choice.  Please reply if you have any problems with the flatpak - I tested it on RHEL 8 last year and it seemed fine.

Comment 8 Alain V. 2022-06-29 18:04:26 UTC
Can we close this ?

Comment 9 Steven A. Falco 2022-06-29 18:11:45 UTC
Yes - we might as well close it.  And by the way, I just tested the KiCad flatpak on Alma 9, which means that it should work on RHEL 9 and CentOS 9 as well.