How To Install horizon-eda on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install horizon-eda
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is horizon-eda
horizon-eda is:
Horizon is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool for circuit board design. It manages the full design flow from schematic entry to gerber export. The main differentiator from KiCAD is a different (more sane) part library design. It is quite new software in 2018 so may have rough edges but is already very capable.
Notable features:
- Sane library management
- Unified editor for everything from symbol to board
- Netlist-aware schematic editor
- KiCad’s awesome interactive router
- Lag- and glitch-free rendering
- Rule-based DRC
- Undo/redo
- Copy/paste for some objects
- Builds and runs on Linux and Windows
There are three methods to install horizon-eda
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install horizon-eda Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install horizon-eda
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install horizon-eda
Install horizon-eda Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install horizon-eda
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install horizon-eda
Install horizon-eda Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install horizon-eda
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install horizon-eda
How To Uninstall horizon-eda on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the horizon-eda
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove horizon-eda
Uninstall horizon-eda And Its Dependencies
To uninstall horizon-eda
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove horizon-eda
Remove horizon-eda Configurations and Data
To remove horizon-eda
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge horizon-eda
Remove horizon-eda configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove horizon-eda
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge horizon-eda
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install horizon-eda
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.