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

The footprint library table is already populated with all the official
stuff by default. For using the Github stuff,
this<https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/template/fp-lib-table.for-github>
is
the table you need.


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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