Installation

Three installation methods are supported.

All-in-one binary

Simply download the binary from here. It ships with all dependencies bundled (including KiCad). The downside is the relatively large size (around 200 MB) and some startup time penalty.

For a quick start:

wget https://atx.github.io/padne/padne-linux-x64
chmod +x padne-linux-x64

# Clone the repository to get the example KiCad projects
git clone git@github.com:atx/padne.git
./padne-linux-x64 gui padne/tests/kicad/via_tht_4layer/via_tht_4layer.kicad_pro

This launches a simple GUI that looks like the animation below:

pipx

sudo apt install python3-full python3-dev python3-pip git libegl1 \
        libegl1-mesa-dev libmpfr-dev libgmp-dev libboost-dev pipx kicad
pipx run --spec git+https://github.com/atx/padne.git padne

Note that in this variant (and the one below) padne uses the system KiCad Python bindings.

Build it yourself

This is ideal if you want to hack on padne itself or are looking for a more lightweight setup. See the Quickstart in the developer guide for the full walk-through.