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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I'd recommend going back a day and waiting, but if you really
want to install it manually, a version of the file is linked in the Ubuntu
bug[1]

[1]
https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-ubuntu-builder/kicad-daily-package/-/issues/10#note_527479262

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 9:59 AM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Any suggestions how I can fix this. Should I just go back a few nightlies
> or can I download and install the file manually?
> On 2021-03-12 9:58 a.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>
> Mingw nightlies are currently broken:
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-win-builder/-/issues/121
>
> @Dino and others:
>
> This resource file has no dependency at all on the configuration in
> ~/.config - its location is set at compile time.
>
> This error: can't open file 'share/kicad/resources/images.tar.gz'
> indicates something is wrong with the KICAD_DATA cmake variable.
> I would check that in your CMakeCache.txt (and maybe clear the cache and
> rerun cmake)
>
> > Deleting that makes kicad not to start with a segmentation fault (may be
> this is a real bug).
>
> Please report a bug for this, it likely has nothing to do with the image
> resource file problem
>
> -Jon
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 9:33 AM Brian Piccioni <
> brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I should add this was the 64-lite installer. I unzipped that package and
>> can't find an images.tar.gz file nor does it appear that any images.tar.*
>> files are present on my system. There were some images.py files installed
>> and some test_images.py files but no other files names images.
>>
>>
>> On 2021-03-12 9:19 a.m., Brian Piccioni wrote:
>>
>> I just downloaded the most recent nightly and got this. Install went
>> without a hitch. How do I fix this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Application: KiCad
>>
>> Version: (5.99.0-9739-g6a369b230f), release build
>>
>> Libraries:
>>     wxWidgets 3.0.5
>>     libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7
>> libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
>>
>> Platform: Windows 10 (build 19042), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little
>> endian, wxMSW
>>
>> Build Info:
>>     Date: Mar 12 2021 10:00:37
>>     wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
>>     Boost: 1.73.0
>>     OCE: 6.9.1
>>     Curl: 7.71.0
>>     ngspice: 34
>>     Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014
>>
>> Build settings:
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2021-03-11 9:14 a.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>>
>> You will get an error message on starting an application saying the file
>> can't be opened (and showing the path it's searching for it)
>>
>> You can dismiss this error message but then you will see no images
>> anywhere:
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:06 AM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a quick test to see if it's working end-to-end?  Something in
>>> KiCad that'll work only if this is working and is found?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 7:44 AM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> As of 18037e2f, a new data file is generated during build that contains
>>>> image resources for KiCad.
>>>>
>>>> This file should be installed to ${KICAD_DATA}/resources/images.tar.gz
>>>> (So, something like /usr/share/kicad/resources/images.tar.gz on Linux).
>>>>
>>>> There is an install target for this in the cmake file now, so this
>>>> *should* be done automatically, but I wanted to give a heads-up in case any
>>>> of the nightly packages require manual modification when the build
>>>> artifacts change.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Jon
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