Hi all,

I've been a member for a few months, and reading the postings, but only now 
actually trying to use Kicad (I'm a student in my last term, and haven't had a 
need - or the time - before this).  My issue may have been addressed before 
now, but I can't remember, and can't find any posts.

I've built the latest stable version (20100314) from source (for Ubuntu 9.10 on 
AMD64 X2 machine), but when I open EESchema it can't find any of the libraries. 
 I assume this is because they aren't included in the source archive, but I 
can't find a library archive file on any of the Kicad sites that I can 
download, and I'm not sure into which directory I should extract it 
(/usr/local/share/kicad/ ?).

If someone could kindly point me to the Kicad library archive file (.tar.gz, 
.tgz, .zip, whatever), and give me a hint as to where I extract it, I will be 
forever grateful.

BTW: I've been using Eagle for circuit board design, but only because when I 
was looking for a Linux ECAD application Kicad didn't show up in my searches 
(and Eagle was cheapest/best I could find).  I can no longer afford to keep 
updating to the latest version, and prefer FOSS, so here I am.


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