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concurrently install nightly and stable builds on macOS

Asked by Stephen Walker-Weinshenker

what is the recommended way to install both the stable build of kicad and a nightly build concurrently. I am trying to get python scripting to work and believe that only the nightly builds will work properly.

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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) said : 		#1

This depends on the platform. On windows, just change the install path since the windows install is completely self contained. On linux, the problem is bit more complex. While you can install the stable version in the default install path for your distro (typically /usr) and the nightly build in the local install path (typically /usr/local), this may cause kicad python library versioning issues. You may have to make python library load path changes to make sure the correct kicad python library version is loaded before you run kicad. I'm not sure what the process for OSX would be.

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Stephen Walker-Weinshenker (sww1235) said : 		#2

Does anyone have any recommendations for macOS, as this question was specific to macOS. I appreciate the answers for other OSes but would appreciate one for macOS before marking the question as answered.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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