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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

To the package maintainers:

For v5 release, can the default library install path be set to a user
directory rather than program directory that may require administrator
rights?

e.g. instead of

C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\...
or
/usr/share/kicad/...

something like;

C:\Users\Oliver\KiCad\...

/home/Oliver/KiCad

(Not necessarily those paths but something like that).

A lot of users are reporting issues with being able to download or modify
library files, due to user privileges.

How attainable is such a change before v5 release?

Thanks,
Oliver