[contingencies]

I'm still on version 5 due to apt/snap issues

I'm still on 5.1.x as snapping is broken. Not apt/snap, but proximity snap. In 5.1.x the best way to place a group is to use https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins 'replicate layout' (components and traces). See also, right click and Select ... Same schematic sheet (components only).

[duped]

I believe GP is referring to the `snap` package manager on Linux, not snapping in the UI.

[contingencies]

Yes, hence the clarification ("Aww, snap.") Incidentally, Ubuntu forced people to move to buggy 6.x at some point circa mid last year - another reason to avoid such distributions.

[duped]

Ubuntu didn't force people to move at all, at least any more than the normal apt-update.

Last I checked though, to install Kicad with apt you needed to manually add a PPA - it wasn't available from the distro at all.

[contingencies]

My point precisely, for them a 'normal' update includes precluding the ongoing use of a working package and replacing it with a novel and buggy one. No idea on the current state, I've largely stopped using Ubuntu.

[delfinom]

Our KiCad 6 was on its own PPA you would have had to add manually. Same for KiCad 7 which has its own PPA. None of this is automated.

Ubuntu/Canoical itself may have pulled a kicad package update from Debian. But we have no say over that process in Ubuntu.