As Dimitris says, create your modified libs in your own directories, don't mess with the supplied libs and modules. This is purely to avoid things being overwritten when you update Kicad. It caught me out once, so I keep libs elsewhere now.
You will need to learn how to deal with editing root/system owned files, and Ubuntu seems to enjoy making things a little bit harder than need be. There will be times when you might want to edit the default project, so that your personal libs are always included. Ubuntu uses the sudo system by default. This asks you for the superuser password before you are allowed to access the system accounts such as root. In use you would enter (on a console) something like sudo vi this runs the vi editor in superuser mode. sudu applies to a single command rather than allowing you to run all commands as su, you can run a terminal as superuser with I think, sudu su, but I've not got a sudo enabled system to test that on available at the moment, so check first. Some graphic applications have superuser versions or allow you to switch into superuser mode in a similar manner. I can't say much more about Ubuntu, I scrapped it PDQ when I found out how brain dead it was with video control. Andy On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:27:31 -0000 "Werner" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, i'm running Ubuntu Karmic Koala. > I've installed KiCad via the Ubuntu Software Centre. > Next i create a new part in the current loaded library. > Then i try to update the library file but get an error: > > not possible because no access to file > > This is because the library is in usr/share/KiCad/Library. > And this is a root owned folder. > > When i remove KiCad from the system via the Ubuntu Software Centre, the KiCad > folder with content remains in usr/share/ > > Would it be safe to change the ownership from root to my personal login? > > How did you install KiCad without losing permission to make changes to the > library folder? > > Thanks... > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
