开云体育

My wife and I both use Chrome books for everyday surfing and email because they are cheap and light weight. For running Kicad I use the 'big' computer in my workshop. However I have often wished I could run Kicad indoors. Rather than shell out for an expensive laptop I wondered if Kicad could be installed on a Chrome book. We have just replaced our ancient Samsung Chrome books with new ASUS one with Intel chips inside. These Chrome books have Crostini installed which is Google's Linux based development framework. Anyway I got this set up on my new Chrome book and I see it provides a basic command line version of Debian stretch. I followed the instructions in the Crostini wiki to set up X apps and got xclock working OK. So on a whim I typed in apt install kicad and to my surprise off it went and installed it. Better still, typing kicad at the command line brings up the familiar Kicad project manager. And it all seems to work (only tried schematic entry so far).

The only downside is it is version 4. Anyone have any idea how I can upgrade this to version 5?

Cheers

Ian