Antonio Cebrián commented on issue #5 at KiCad / KiCad Packaging / Kicad Appimage

Antonio Cebrián
2026-03-26T00:01:59Z

Tested under Debian Trixie with latest 1.0.0 AppImage release:

Main applications (Schematic Editor, Symbor Editor, PCB Editor, Footprint Editor and also Plugin and Content Manager) work fine .

Other applications (Gerber Viewer, Image Converter, Calculator Tools and Drawing Sheet Editor) fail to start.

Terminal output:

$ ./kicad-10.0.0-x86_64.AppImage

Setting $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to "/home/devel/kicad-10.0.0-x86_64.AppImage.config" Setting $HOME to "/home/devel/kicad-10.0.0-x86_64.AppImage.home"

/tmp/.mount_kicadremp1758307683651739677/usr/bin/pl_editor: error while loading shared libraries: libkicommon.so.10.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/tmp/.mount_kicadremp1758307683651739677/usr/bin/pcb_calculator: error while loading shared libraries: libkicommon.so.10.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/tmp/.mount_kicadremp1758307683651739677/usr/bin/bitmap2component: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk3u_aui-3.3.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/tmp/.mount_kicadremp1758307683651739677/usr/bin/gerbview: error while loading shared libraries: libkicommon.so.10.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Both libraries can be found in extracte APPImage, therefore it should be a ABI compatibility issue.

Best regards.