Unable to install KiCAD 8.0.x

I am running:

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.55.73-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 32 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

Running the following as ROOT:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Simmphonie:kicad/15.5/home:Simmphonie:kicad.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install kicad

… gives me this error message:

Problem: 1: nothing provides 'libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.38)(64bit)' needed by the to be installed kicad-8.0.5-146.1.x86_64

However, the YaST2 Package Manager | File List, shows that /lib64/libc.so.6 is installed.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Martin

Try updating glibc with sudo zypper update glibc

This home repository is kind of broken and shouldn’t be used. The home repo does not build a working package for Leap. It is not possible to build and use the latest KiCAD 8.0.x version on Leap 15.5 or Leap 15.6.

Read one of the bugreports:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224819

The latest available version for Leap 15.5 is glibc-2.31
This is easy to check.

Thanks for the suggestion:

Gzunder:~ # zypper update glibc
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No update candidate for 'glibc-2.31-150300.86.3.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
Gzunder:~ # 

I guess I’m stuck on KiCAD 6.0.11.

Use FlatPak:

FlatPak

FlatPak is a software distribution system that allows us to provide up-to-date versions of KiCad on many Linux distributions. FlatPak is officially supported by KiCad and is our recommended way to install the latest version of KiCad on any distribution other than Ubuntu and Fedora, if it is not available through your distribution’s package manager.

Also

Upgrading glibc requires recompiling all packages.
It is possible to use newer glibc on Leap with LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH prefixes.

Yes. But the trouble (for me) is that trying to find any file locations outside the Flatpak sandbox is a nightmare - if not impossible!

None the less. I am using the Flatpak but its not ideal.

Regards, M.

Also Distrobox or Wine.

https://en.opensuse.org/Distrobox

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