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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a reason you installed KiCad in ~/SW/usr/local/bin/kicad? That
seems like a strange place to install it. The cmake defaults work fine for
me and coexist just fine with a stable install!

How did you specify that install location?

Jon

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, There!
>
> I am running kicad-latest for testing purposes in my home directory:
> ~/SW/usr/local/bin/kicad
> There is also kicad-4.0.1 in /usr/bin/kicad.
>
>
> To test the latest stuff from you, I
>
> 1. open kicad-latest from a terminal/console:
> [admin@black bin]$ pwd
> /home/admin/SW/usr/local/bin
> [admin@black bin]$ ./kicad
>
> 2. start pcbnew via hotkey or by clicking the button.
>
> Then, I get the complain:
> [admin@black bin]$ ./kicad
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named pcbnew
>
>
> What's the best way to test kicad-latest not interfering with the distro's
> installation?
>
> Greets,
>
> Clemens (CKO)
>
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