Add new component to Kicad 8.0.1

Schematic Library Symbols
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Hello all,

I am trying to add new components to my Kicad, following this How to get a downloaded symbol, footprint or full library into KiCad version 5? . The components comes from here Getting Started with Seeed Studio XIAO SAMD21 | Seeed Studio Wiki and here GitHub - pforrmi/KiCad-SSD1306-128x64: Kicad footprints and templates for SSD1306 128x64px OLED .

The problem is that the links above only provide .lib files, while apparently what I need are .kicad_sym files. What am I doing wrong?

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.lib files are the old (IIRC v5 and previous) format. I think you have to register or import as legacy format. Be warned, symbols from the Internet are often deficient in other ways and you may find yourself spending more time fixing up than if you made them yourself.

Also 8.0.1 is old and buggy and you should upgrade to the latest stable 8.0.6 at the time of writing.

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