Please branch kicad for EPEL8
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....
Hello, Any news on Kicad in EPEL8?
I'm ready to help if that is not an issue
(New email adress, same guy) Hello, Has someone noticed my request?
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.
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 ?)
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.
Can we close this ?
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.