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[Holger Vogt <holger.vogt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A user has reported a problem at 
https://forum.kicad.info/t/unable-to-simulate-an-op-amp-using-eeshemas-simulator-ngspice/36281/12.

After clarifying some user problems with his circuits, a real problem 
seems to surface up.

After installing KiCad on Fedora 36, he could not run some basic 
simulations because typical XSPICE models have not been available. They 
are needed to run simulations with PSPICE-compatible device models.

During compiling KiCad on Fedora, libngspice is pulled in as a 
dependency. Obviously the XSPICE code models (available in shared 
libraries analog.cm, digital.cm, spice2poly.cm, table.cm, xtradev.cm, 
xtraevt.cm) are not made available as well.

The user could temporarily fix his problem by also installing standard 
ngspice, which offers these code model files in /usr/lib64/ngspice/.

Steve, could you please check if these files are really missing in the 
Fedora distributions? If yes, could you care for adding these? Or should 
I ask Mamuro Tasaka to explicitely add them to his libngspice builds in 
Fedora?

Holger