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Source code
Source code of KiCad can be downloaded from sourceforge.net mirrors.
Binary packages
zip files - for Windows.
tbz2 files - for Linux.
Binary (both official release and svn snapshots) packages of KiCad can be downloaded from sourceforge.net mirrors.
Linux nightly builds can be downloaded from Magnus Beischer site.
Debian packages can be found in the standard Debian repository, see here for details.
Gentoo Linux contains ebuild for KiCad in the portage tree.
Arch Linux PKGBUILD can be downloaded here.
Subversion
The evolving, unreleased, development version of KiCad can be obtained from the Subversion repository.
This repository is located at https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net
Anyone can view the KiCad source code at the Subversion repository here web (ViewVC) using a web browser only.
The full KiCad tree in Subversion occupies approximately 23MB.
But if you want to obtain a working copy of the source tree, then you must install a Subversion client first.
The first time use the Subversion "checkout" command to obtain a working copy of the portion of the tree that you are interested in. After that, in future weeks, you only need to download incremental changes (smaller downloads), by doing a Subversion "update" command.
Anyone who needs only some part of the KiCad tree can download only the required folders or files.
The full working copy of the source code can be obtained by the following Subversion command, to be issued at the command line prompt:
svn checkout https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kicad/trunk/kicad kicad
A working copy of the documentation can be obtained by this command:
svn checkout https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kicad/trunk/kicad-doc kicad-doc
A working copy of the library elements can be obtained by this command:
svn checkout https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kicad/trunk/kicad-library kicad-library
In order to install Subversion:
For Gentoo Linux:
emerge -av subversion
For Debian Linux (and derivates such as Ubuntu etc.):
apt-get install subversion
For Unix, consider this Subverson GUI client - kdesvn or RapidSVN.
For Windows, there is a GUI Subverson client - TortoiseSVN (with good docs), RapidSVN, although the standard command line version will work as well.
There is also a nice QT-based (OpenSource) crossplatform subversion frontend, eSVN
Documentation for Subversion is here.
List of changes
You can help with the project!
All programmers, binary package maintainers, documentation writers and translators who want to support KiCad and improve it, can send patches to the Yahoo group kicad-devel or obtain write access to the KiCad Subversion.
To obtain a write permission for the KiCad SVN, it is required to send a yours patch to the Yahoo group kicad-devel.
If somebody from KiCad developers team approve yours patch then you can be a member of KiCad team.
After this, you must create account at sourceforge.net and provide your account name to the Igor Plyatov.
After you give us some information about yourself, please drop me a letter and I ( Igor Plyatov) will add you to the KiCad project members (developers) and you will have write access to the Subversion repository.
