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I installed KiCad using the Ubuntu Software application. It installed version 4.0.7 which seems to be outdated.

When I started it I encountered cursor ghosting like in the screenshot below.

This is usually fixed by installing the latest build, following https://kicad-pcb.org/download/ubuntu/

But no matter how hard I try I did not manage to install version 5.16. It always installs 4.0.7.

$ sudo apt list kicad
Listing... Done
kicad/bionic,now 4.0.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]

$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kicad/kicad-5.1-releases/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease

Hit:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease

Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

the source is being updated so why can't I get the software from it?

How can I get a newer software version from a source other than the official Ubuntu repository?

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Piglet
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  • thanks @user535733. this tells me why Ubuntu repositories do not provide latest versions. but why do I get the old version with the devs ppa as source? how to I get the newer version from a source other than the Ubuntu repositories? – Piglet Jul 23 '20 at 20:42
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    PPA is a personal archive. Only its owner knows why they don't update it. – Pilot6 Jul 23 '20 at 20:45
  • @Pilot6 it's the devs' official source for the software, I followed their install instructiosn for that version and as many suggest this as the solution to the rendering problem I suppose it yields the correct version for others. – Piglet Jul 23 '20 at 20:55
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    Please edit your question to include the complete output of apt-cache policy kicad – user535733 Jul 23 '20 at 21:22

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If you visit the ppa url, given below, you will find that it has packages of kicad-5.1 for Ubuntu-19.10 and Ubuntu-20.04 only.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/kicad/kicad-5.1-releases/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kicad/

turbulence
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  • It is available for Ubuntu-18.04 in one of on Kicad's contributor's (Jean-Samuel Reynaud) PPA. https://launchpad.net/~js-reynaud/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-5 – turbulence Jul 24 '20 at 07:40
  • thanks, that's how I actually solved it. I derived the PPA from the instructions for an older version mentioned in the docs. – Piglet Jul 24 '20 at 10:16