I agree with everyone else, it's a permissions problem. When you install kicad manually there is a part of the install where you have to do a chmod operation ( /usr/local/kicad/bin and run chmod 755 * )
When you transferred things over some permissions may have been upset, It will depend on how you did the transfer, what you used to do the compression and so on. For example things like zip do not preserver file attributes, and if you copy uncompressed files over via samba then again file attributes can be lost. Did you change your user name by any chance on the new machine? If so you will prob find it easier to change the old owner name to your new one before anything else. Compare the user, group and permissions on the old machine whit the new. That should give you the clues as to what needs correcting. As other have said, take to opportunity to set up your own libs and mods directory and such like. It will save a few headaches in the future. Andy On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:48 -0000 "yeshe66" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
