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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/14/2017 06:32 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> The sym-lib-table file is empty (I didn't create/copy this, I guess
> kicad created it):
> 
> $ cat ~/.config/kicad/sym-lib-table
> (sym_lib_table
> )

You need to get a copy of the latest default symbol library table from
the kicad library repo.  There is a link to it in blog post on the
website that contains all of the pertinent information on the symbol
library table remapping.

I figured out the github url issue.  I just need to find the time to fix it.

> 
> I don't have KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR set in my environment:
> 
> $ env | grep KI
> KIGITHUB=https://github.com/KiCad
> KICAD_PATH=/usr/share/kicad
> 
> -Jon
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Jon,
> 
>     Please send me a copy of your global symbol library table
>     (sym-lib-table) located in the kicad folder of your user configuration
>     path.  There are no sym-lib-table paths with http://github.com/KiCad in
>     the default symbol library table.  I just checked.  Either you have
>     copied an invalid symbol library table file or something is broken in
>     you configuration.  The only other thing I can think of is the somehow
>     your KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR environment variable is pointing to
>     http://github.com/KiCad. ; It should be point to where the default kicad
>     symbol libraries are install.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 11/13/2017 9:30 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>     > Hi Wayne,
>     >
>     > I just pulled in your recent changes and got a series of assertions when
>     > trying to remap the symbol table.  I just ignored them and it seemed to
>     > work, but something is strange here:
>     >
>     > ../../eeschema/dialogs/dialog_symbol_remap.cpp(306): assert
>     > "aPathA.IsAbsolute()" failed in normalizeAbsolutePaths():
>     > https:/github.com/KiCad <http://github.com/KiCad>
>     <http://github.com/KiCad> is not an absolute path.
>     >
>     > (note the single slash after https:)
>     >
>     > I haven't looked in to it closely but wanted to mention in case you
>     > already know what the cause is.  If not, I can dig in at some point.
>     >
>     > -Jon
> 
>