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[Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-11-14 06:32 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> 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
> )
>
> I don't have KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR set in my environment:
>
> $ env | grep KI
> KIGITHUB=https://github.com/KiCad
> KICAD_PATH=/usr/share/kicad

There is the global sym-lib-table and the one under ~/.config. On my Linux 
machine I install kicad to /opt and the sym-lib-table can be found in 
/opt/kicad/share/kicad/template/.

The environment variables referenced aren't in your system shell. They are 
the ones defined in Preferences -> Configure Paths. You find that in the 
menus of the box you get after you first start KiCad.

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