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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you built KiCad with the GitHub plugin enabled?


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> See https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-lib-committers/msg00034.html
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>> Which means that you should basically checkout
>> lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only instead. I guess the information
>> should be updated on the website also, by those who have write access.
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> Thanks for the information. I followed the same steps as on the wiki,
> except using lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only instead, but I'm still
> running into the same issue. In particular, when I open up cvpcb, there are
> no footprints available.
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> I'm getting errors like "Cannot find footprint library file 'sockets.mod'
> in any of the KiCad legacy library search paths.". There is no file
> sockets.mod, but there is a file Sockets.mod present in
> $INSTALL_ROOT/share/kicad/modules/. I tried renaming the file to
> sockets.mod but that doesn't seem to make any difference (no footprints
> appear either way).
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> It seems like there is a lot of mention of "legacy" in the dialogs when
> using this approach. Is there a different approach that I should be using
> which is non-"legacy"?
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> -- Sean Silva
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>> 2014-02-16 1:54 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>>>  Is there a preferred way to do this? Just building lp:kicad there
>>> doesn't seem to be any library stuff included. What I was able to find was:
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>>> There seems to be <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library> and all the
>>> *.pretty repos on github, but I wasn't able to find an explanation of how
>>> to integrate that into the basic source build/install.
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>>> Also, at the bottom of <
>>> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/Building+KiCad+on+Linux>, it says
>>> "If you want to also install the KiCad components library, you can use
>>> these commands:", but those commands don't work for me, and seem to be
>>> unrelated to the github libraries.
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>>> So what is the usual/preferred way to get the libraries?
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>>> -- Sean Silva
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