KiCad AppImages

These AppImages were built on a Dockerized Ubuntu 20.04 and tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 38 and Fedora 40.

Build

1. Install (and start) Docker.
2. git clone https://github.com/CyberCircuits/kicad-appimage.git
3. cd kicad-appimage
4. docker compose run dev
5. make or make 3d

Requirements

Graphics-related libraries are not bundled because the display driver is built to a specific kernel version.

Ubuntu 22.04 or later

Newer Ubuntu comes preinstalled with fuse3 and libfuse3. We must install libfuse2 separately.

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt install libfuse2

Debian 11 or later

sudo apt install libglu1-mesa

Fedora

sudo dnf install mesa-libGLU

Usage

To access internal binaries in KiCad, provide the executable name as the first argument.

For example, to use the KiCad command-line interface, type ./KiCad-xxx.AppImage kicad-cli, where xxx represents the version number.

To open standalone Schematic editor type ./KiCad-xxx.AppImage eeschema <path/to/file.kicad_sch>

To open standalone PCB editor type ./KiCad-xxx.AppImage pcbnew <path/to/file.kicad_pcb>

List of accessible binaries:

• bitmap2component
• eeschema
• idf2vrml
• idfrect
• pcbnew
• kicad-cli
• dxf2idf
• gerbview
• pcb_calculator
• pl_editor

Download

Please see releases for all available binary AppImages for download.