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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to use standalone EESCHEMA (standalone =: run from command line not project
manager) to load an old schematic.

In the project *.pro file corresponding to the old schematic I see this line:

LibDir=/i/pcbs/kicad_parts;/usr/local/share/kicad/library

In /i/pcbs/kicad_parts is a library that I made called mylib:

/i/pcbs/kicad_parts$ ll mylib*
-rw-rw---- 1 dick develop 286715 Apr 16  2018 mylib.bak
-rw-rw---- 1 dick develop    785 Sep 27 16:12 mylib.bck
-rw-rw---- 1 dick develop    785 Sep 27 16:12 mylib.dcm
-rw-rw---- 1 dick develop 300397 Sep 27 16:12 mylib.lib


$ eeschema old-board.sch

leads to a well-known dialog :

   Remap Symbols

Whether I choose to remap or not, I don't see the *ANY* properly rendered parts in the
subsequently drawn schematic.  Regardless of which library they may be in.

(I thought the *.pro file's LibDir was supposed to establish a "search path" for the old
libraries?)


At this point, I don't now how to load an old schematic using this version:


Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.99.0-635-ga5c7d452c), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4)
nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    Build date: Jan  4 2020 19:45:12
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.22
    Boost: 1.65.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.4.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=OFF
    KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
    KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
    KICAD_SANITIZE=OFF