Adding Kicad Plugins in Ubuntu 20.04

[HARI]

Dear Team,
I am trying to use Kicad Plugins(Interactive BOM,Tear Drop) in my PC running in Ubuntu.
I try to paste the Plugins in “/usr/share/kicad/Plugins” folder.But I am not able to paste there.
Could you please help me how to use Plugins in Ubuntu
Regards
HARI

[hermit]

I’m on Debian. Mine are here:
/home/hermit/.config/kicad/scripting/plugins

[HARI]

Hi Hermit,

Thank you.
In my system the path is like this “/usr/share/kicad/scripting”.
I am not able to paste the “.py” files in that location.

Regards
HARI

[der.ule]

What Hermit try to tell you is that you should put the plugins in the home folder (/home/name/) and not in the folder where kicad is installed (/usr/share/), if you put them there or change the libraries from that folder, the next time that you updgrade kicad, those changes will be lost.

Why don't my plugins show up - Windows 10

Just to add to what @qu1ck said, the default path for plugins in windows (the folder where they should be saved) is: %appdata%/kicad/scripting/plugins (in my computer that means: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\KiCad_v5_1_7\scripting\plugins ) the location: C:\Program Files\KiCad_v5_1_7\share\kicad\scripting\plugins or wherever kicad got installed, it is not meant for user plugins, those python files are part of the kicad installation and are used for creating footprints with the wizards or a…

[HARI]

@hermit

/home/hermit/.config/kicad

Hi…
I went to the folder “home/hari/.config/kicad”.But I am not able to see scripting folder there.
Please see the attached image.

Regards
HARI

[eelik]

Just create it yourself.

[HARI]

@hermit

plugins

Hi …
I created the folder and paste the interactive bom plugin there.(“init.py”).But no use.
Regards

HARI

[qu1ck]

You need to put the whole InteractiveHtmlBom folder there, not just the init file.

[HARI]

Hiiii…

Now it is working.
Thank you very much.

Regards
HARI