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[Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, that was really helpful. Now I can refine my question a bit more.
What is the recommended way to populate the footprint library table? I
understand now how to manually add entries, but there are lots to add and I
just want to "add all the official ones" out of the box.

-- Sean Silva
On Feb 19, 2014 1:29 AM, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> I might have read your original mail a bit wrong, the dickelbeck lib is
>>> the legacy one.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> What exactly should I be looking for?
>>
>>
>>>  If you want to use online pretty libs you also need to make sure that
>>> the KIGITHUB env variable is set.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- Sean Silva
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2014-02-17 20:22 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Have you built KiCad with the GitHub plugin enabled?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My CMakeCache says:
>>>> //Build the GITHUB_PLUGIN for pcbnew.
>>>> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN:BOOL=ON
>>>>
>>>> so I assume yes. Is there anything else I need to do to enable it?
>>>>
>>>> -- Sean Silva
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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