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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Nathan,

The steps you have described brought you footprints usable for board
design in pcbnew. If you need symbols for eeschema, there is another
repository [1] that you have to download and point eeschema there.

Regards,
Orson

1. https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/tree/master/library

On 03/30/2015 08:14 AM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> installed to a local dir after make finished compiling using:
> make install DESTDIR=~/kicad_daily_3_29
> 
> then launching with:
> cd ~/kicad_daily_3_29/usr/local/bin
> ./kicad
> 
> but upon opening eeschema from the project-launcher (./kicad GUI), it
> complains hat it couldn't load any of the default libraries. I then
> went on to use the bash script:
> cd ~/kicad_daily_3_29/usr/local/share/doc/kicad/scripts
> bash library-repos-install.sh --install-prerequisites
> bash library-repos-install.sh --install-or-update
> 
> (oh and by the way the usage message incorrectly states the script
> name is library-sources-install.sh)
> 
> but no luck, even after it git clones all the .pretty files... kicad
> still doesn't find the default symbols.
> 
> even if I:
> cp ~/kicad_sources/library-repos/kicad-library/template/fp-lib-table.for-pretty
> ~/.config/kicad/fp-lib-table
> 
> no luck... nor if I set this env variable:
> export KISYSMOD=~/kicad_sources/library-repos
> 
> Even if I go to eeschema's "Preferences" menu, then the "Component
> Libraries" dialog and set the "User defined search path" to the dir
> "~/kicad_sources/library-repos" it doesn't find the defaults.
> 
> 
> I don't know what to do, other than think something something
> somewhere in the code is broken.
> 
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