How to install KiCad 2013-07-07 BZR 4022 on Ubuntu 64

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.

Attention! KiCad 2013-07-07 BZR 4022 is extremely old and should not be used anymore. Version 4.x is also deprecated.

The current and recommended stable version is 5.1.

Please consider migrating and using this one instead: KiCad EDA

Please, note that the former website kicad-pcb.org is no longer related to KiCad project and may contain malicious software. Do not use!

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

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