I would suggest installing the modified library in your own space and leaving the system-wide library alone. Clearly, the problem is ownership and permissions of the file and its containing directory. These probably should be owned by root and should not be writable by any other user - its too easy for someone else to ruin your system library that way.
You should be able to install the libraries that you modified in a directory under your home directory, edit them to remove the modules and parts that are in the system's libraries, then continue. Restore the system-wide libraries to their original glory and all will be well. HTH, Donald. ----- Original Message ----- From: "yeshe66" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2009 4:28:48 AM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected Subject: [kicad-users] cannot save module in library Hi! I've used kicad for quite a while now, and during the time I have done some minor changes and added modules to the original module libraries (yes, I know, it would be better if I made my own lib for moy own modules, but that's a different story) Anyway, I use linux (PCLinuxOS) and just bought a new PC where I installed the new PCLinuxOS as well. I installed Kicad automatically through the rpm and all seemed to work fine. But I wanted my personal modules from the old PC, so I compressed the folder /usr/share/kicad and transferred it to my new PC. Then I replaced the files with my old ones. I could use the modules as normal, but now I had to make a change on one module. But I couldn't save it in the library! I got the errors: Librari.cpp: rename NewLib err Impossible to overwrite the file 'usr/share/kicad/modulesvalves.mod' (error 1: Operation not allowed) I checked user settings for the files: user was root, and only that user could change or delete files, so I changed the settings so all users could change and delete the files., but I still got the same error messages. I exported my edited part to my home folder and closed kicad - and opened again, but kicad can't change files in the library anymore! Could anybody help me? ------------------------------------ Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
