Have you built KiCad with the GitHub plugin enabled?
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Sean Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]>wrote: > >> See https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-lib-committers/msg00034.html >> >> Which means that you should basically checkout >> lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only instead. I guess the information >> should be updated on the website also, by those who have write access. >> > > Thanks for the information. I followed the same steps as on the wiki, > except using lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only instead, but I'm still > running into the same issue. In particular, when I open up cvpcb, there are > no footprints available. > > I'm getting errors like "Cannot find footprint library file 'sockets.mod' > in any of the KiCad legacy library search paths.". There is no file > sockets.mod, but there is a file Sockets.mod present in > $INSTALL_ROOT/share/kicad/modules/. I tried renaming the file to > sockets.mod but that doesn't seem to make any difference (no footprints > appear either way). > > It seems like there is a lot of mention of "legacy" in the dialogs when > using this approach. Is there a different approach that I should be using > which is non-"legacy"? > > -- Sean Silva > > >> >> 2014-02-16 1:54 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <[email protected]>: >> >>> Is there a preferred way to do this? Just building lp:kicad there >>> doesn't seem to be any library stuff included. What I was able to find was: >>> >>> There seems to be <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library> and all the >>> *.pretty repos on github, but I wasn't able to find an explanation of how >>> to integrate that into the basic source build/install. >>> >>> Also, at the bottom of < >>> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/Building+KiCad+on+Linux>, it says >>> "If you want to also install the KiCad components library, you can use >>> these commands:", but those commands don't work for me, and seem to be >>> unrelated to the github libraries. >>> >>> So what is the usual/preferred way to get the libraries? >>> >>> -- Sean Silva >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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