Hi,
I just installed nightly:
Application: KiCad
Version: 5.99.0-unknown-912657dd23~106~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
It works but there is no 3dmodels folder in /usr/lib/kicad-nightly/share/kicad.
If I try to install with /usr/lib/kicad-nightly/share/kicad, answer is kicad-nightly-packages3d est déjà la version la plus récente (202012230826+d8b7e8c5~8~ubuntu20.04.1)
Yesterday, I installed nightly Windows version on another computer, and everything is OK. I could copy from Windows, but I like to understand…
What commands did you use to install kicad-nightly?
Long time ago I noticed that I only partly installed (the then current) KiCad version, and it only installed some of the packages.
These are the packages related to “kicad-nightly” on my system. the “i” in the first column indicate which are installed currently.
paul@medion:~$ apt search kicad-nightly
i kicad-nightly - Electronic schematic and PCB design softwa
p kicad-nightly-dbg - Debug symbols for kicad
i A kicad-nightly-demos - Common files used by kicad
i kicad-nightly-footprints - Kicad footprints (modules)
i kicad-nightly-libraries - meta-package for dep to all KiCad librarie
i kicad-nightly-packages3d - Kicad packages3d (3d models for footprints
i kicad-nightly-symbols - Kicad symbols (schematic)
i kicad-nightly-templates - Kicad templates
You can add or remove some of the available packages to tweak KiCad to your liking.
EDIT: “lib” stands for “library” but on computer systems means program blocks, programming libraries, not application data libraries. “share” on Linux is for platform independent data.
It was automatically installed like this, I used install method from Kicad.org:
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sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-dev-nightly
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kicad-nightly
# You can also install debug symbols:
sudo apt install kicad-nightly-dbg
# Demo
sudo apt install kicad-nightly-demos
# and libraries
sudo apt install kicad-nightly-footprints kicad-nightly-libraries kicad-nightly-packages3d kicad-nightly-symbols kicad-nightly-templates
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KISYS3DMOD points to /usr/lib/kicad-nightly/share/kicad/3dmodels/, and /usr/share/kicad-nightly contains symbolic links to library and modules from … /usr/lib…
Found it: packages3d are in /usr/lib/kicad-nightly/share/kicad/modules/packages3d, not in kicad/3dmodels folder. The KISYS3DMOD parameter doesn’t match installation folders.
I don’t know why libraries are installed in /usr/lib for nightly and /usr/share for stable version, but both work well now.
Thanks for your help, KiCad has a great community.