aimylios/kicad-nightly

Description

This is an unofficial repository for nightly builds of KiCad.

Contrary to the current Fedora upstream KiCad package and the official KiCad nightly copr it does ship the libraries (templates, schematic symbols, and footprints) as separate packages. This may cause incompatibilities with existing installations, so if you are already using the official nightly copr you should disable it and uninstall your current version of KiCad before using this copr.

dnf copr remove @kicad/kicad
dnf remove kicad

All packages are rebuilt every Saturday at 03:00 CE(S)T, unless no changes have been made to the respective source repository since the last build. The main KiCad package is also rebuilt on Tuesday and Thursday 03:00 CE(S)T. This allows to do selective updates, e.g., if only the kicad-symbols repository has been updated within the last seven days, then only the kicad-nightly-symbols package is rebuilt and users get an update for that without the need to also download and install the application and other libraries.

Warning: Nightly builds are untested, might be affected by serious bugs and/or produce files that are incompatible with the latest stable release. This can potentially lead to a corruption or even loss of data. Always take a backup of your projects before opening them with the applications from this package.

Installation Instructions

If you don't have copr install with:

dnf install dnf-plugins-core

Enable repository:

dnf copr enable aimylios/kicad-nightly

Install KiCad main application:

dnf install kicad-nightly

Install project templates, schematic symbol libraries, and footprint libraries:

dnf install kicad-nightly-templates kicad-nightly-symbols kicad-nightly-footprints

Install 3D models:

dnf install kicad-nightly-packages3d

Install documentation:

dnf install kicad-nightly-doc

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 39	x86_64 (32)*	Fedora 39 (0 downloads)
Fedora 40	x86_64 (11)*	Fedora 40 (40 downloads)
Fedora 41	x86_64 (6)*	Fedora 41 (18 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	x86_64 (1086)*	Fedora rawhide (313 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.