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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you read the 5 - Footprint Libraries Management chapter in
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-developers/kicad/doc/view/head:/doc/help/en/cvpcb.pdf?


2014-02-19 1:45 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:

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> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> I might have read your original mail a bit wrong, the dickelbeck lib is
>> the legacy one.
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>> But it should be enough with only the github plugin AFIK, you can verify
>> it by looking at the Help menu and then the version information.
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> What exactly should I be looking for?
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>>  If you want to use online pretty libs you also need to make sure that
>> the KIGITHUB env variable is set.
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> I didn't know about this environment variable, but it doesn't seem to
> change things. I just did a clean rebuild to be sure, with
> -DBUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON, and still, when I open cvpcb, I have no
> footprints.
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> -- Sean Silva
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>> 2014-02-17 20:22 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>>> Have you built KiCad with the GitHub plugin enabled?
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>>> My CMakeCache says:
>>> //Build the GITHUB_PLUGIN for pcbnew.
>>> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN:BOOL=ON
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>>> so I assume yes. Is there anything else I need to do to enable it?
>>>
>>> -- Sean Silva
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>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> See https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-lib-committers/msg00034.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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).
>>>>>
>>>>> 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"?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Sean Silva
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>>>>>
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>>>>>> 2014-02-16 1:54 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what is the usual/preferred way to get the libraries?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Sean Silva
>>>>>>>
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