KiCad has been updated to 4.0.x branch and it is strongly recommended to use it for all your new projects, instead of the good old BZR 4022 from 2013.
But sometimes, when you want to open an old design without too much trouble, it’s more convenient to just install the old version.
The current and recommended stable version is 5.1.
Please consider migrating and using this one instead: KiCad EDA
All former links on this page have been updated to archive.org
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Old Kicad versions can be found here: archive.org
If you encounter this:
/usr/local/kicad/bin/kicad: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Then it’s probably because BZR 4022 is a 32 bit only software and you’re using a 64 bit OS.
You need to install libgtk2.0-0:i386:
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0:i386
It might be also necessary to install the following packages:
sudo apt install libxxf86vm1:i386 libsm6:i386 lib32stdc++6 libglu1-mesa:i386
Then you might have this:
$ /usr/local/kicad/bin/kicad
(kicad:22433): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: « murrine »
(kicad:22433): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: « pixmap »
(kicad:22433): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: « murrine »
(kicad:22433): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: « murrine »
(kicad:22433): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: « murrine »
(kicad:22433): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: « murrine »
(...)
To solve the warnings, you need to install:
sudo apt install gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386
Ubuntu >= 19.x
On recent versions of Ubuntu, you might encounter this error message:
error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The problem is that libpng12-0 isn’t available any more on the latest releases.
You must download first a .deb package manually:
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Then install it using dpkg -i:
sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Hello – a question, can you point me to where I can locate an install / source archive for BZR 4022?
Thank you,
Hi,
Old Kicad versions can be found at this address: archive.org
However, it is a better idea to switch to the new version. There are lots of improvements.
Hi, this is really helpful. Thank you so much.
Thanks a lot, so glad to have found this.
I can now get rid of my old linux that i kept only for the old Kicad.