Setting up kicad in ParrotOS

ParrotOS is a powerful competitor to Kali Linux, however with its powerful operating system sometimes its package support can be a little challenging - that is setting up kicad (a powerful schematic and circuit simulation software).

If you just want the basic kicad flavor - you can do this:

sudo apt install kicad

• However you will get a fairly outdated version as in 6.0 when the latest kicad is up to version 9.0 - trying to add new libraries will fail!  however the recommended process from kicads site will not normally work.
• The following commands will just break - documentation is sparse!

Instead do this:

Goto this site: https://launchpad.net/~kicad

Select technical details

Next you will need to edit your parrot.list as in:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parrot.list

Where we add the following line after examining our Debian equivalent version with:

lsb_release -a

deb [trusted=yes] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kicad/kicad-9.0-releases/ubuntu 6.3 main

Next we want to see what versions are available:

apt list --all-versions kicad

Which will give us:

sudo apt install kicad/parrot6-backports

The same process applies to the kicad-libraries as in:

sudo apt list --all-versions kicad-libraries

If you have done it correctly you should get the following when you inspect it.

Gazinga!