Kicad-nightly no longer installable

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Hi there,

Not sure if this is a Manjaro or an AUR or even a KiCAD problem, I’m hoping somebody in here can help me / point me in the right direction.

I can no longer install / update kicad-nightly via pamac (other packages work just fine).

sudo pamac install kicad-nightly

leads to:

To build (1):
  kicad-nightly  6.99.0_2659_gfe3a112396-1    AUR


Edit build files : [e] 
Apply transaction ? [e/y/N] y

looking good so far, but then:

==> Starting prepare()...
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- CMakeModules/Functions.cmake       2022-01-22 01:30:53.516011218 +0000
|+++ CMakeModules/Functions.cmake.new   2022-01-22 02:20:01.277354828 +0000
--------------------------
File to patch:

Any hints?

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  • pamac is not pacman.
  • You don’t need to use sudo with pamac

Do you also have the problem when building the manual way?

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The patch is no longer applying. The AUR package maintainer will have to adapt to whatever upstream changes there have been.

Why not use the kicad community repo package?

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Thanks for the fast answers.

@maycne.sonahoz
pacman / pamac → will correct my initial post

is this considered manual ?

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/kicad-nightly.git
makepkg -si

It yields the same result.

@Yochanan
Did inform the maintainer.

I am using the nightly because I am stuck between a rock and a hard place … Before 6.0 was out I started using the nightly because I liked it way better then the 5.x. When 6.0 was released and I should have switched to stable … but I did not and it was in a time when I did a lot of PCBs. I only noticed it when plugins started breaking, but now I have a dozen PCBs and a library in 6.99 …
This issue here may be the nudge I need to start using stable again :slight_smile: