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[Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>

When I installed after building from source, the footprint library table
didn't seem to be populated at all. However, I tried copying the
fp-lib-table.for-github to ~/fp-lib-table and now everything works.

-- Sean Silva


>
>
> 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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