KiCad PCB Design Software Installation in Ubuntu

KiCad is a free opensource software to use for Electronic Design Automation.

KiCad has 5 main sections

• KiCad – the project manager.
• Eeschema – the schematic editor.
• Pcbnew – the PCB layout designer. It includes 3D view also.
• GerbView – the Gerber file viewer.
• Bitmap2Component – tool to convert images to footprints for PCB artwork

 If you are a Windows user you can go to http://kicad-pcb.org/ and download and install the software. it is very user friendly and powerful software.

So, in this article I will share my experience KiCad install in Ubuntu 18.04

Steps:
open the terminal and first run sudo add-apt-repository –yes ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5 

Then type and run sudo apt update

Then run sudo apt install kicad

After following dialog box appears press Y and wait. 

After installation when you open KiCad it looks like this