How To Install kicad-symbols on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kicad-symbols
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is kicad-symbols
kicad-symbols is:
Eeschema is a powerful schematic capture software distributed as part of KiCad which get it’s great and powerful efficiency from the usage of prepared schematics for the various needed schematic symbols.
This package is providing this schematic symbols for Eeschema usable with KiCad >= 5.0.0.
There are three methods to install kicad-symbols
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install kicad-symbols Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kicad-symbols
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kicad-symbols
Install kicad-symbols Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kicad-symbols
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kicad-symbols
Install kicad-symbols 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 kicad-symbols
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kicad-symbols
How To Uninstall kicad-symbols on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the kicad-symbols
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kicad-symbols
Uninstall kicad-symbols And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kicad-symbols
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kicad-symbols
Remove kicad-symbols Configurations and Data
To remove kicad-symbols
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kicad-symbols
Remove kicad-symbols configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kicad-symbols
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kicad-symbols
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kicad-symbols
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.