Errors were encountered loading footprints: kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786

[So_Test]

Hi:

I am newbie in working with KiCad So for first time i tried to generate footprint of one negative voltage source from And the Sketch is like this :

button and i get this error in my linux LMDE like this:

Errors were encountered loading footprints:
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Resistors_THT.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Displays.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Buttons_Switches_THT.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Connectors_WAGO.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Connectors.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Capacitors_THT.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Diodes_THT.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Relays_THT.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Connectors_Mini-Universal.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786
IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules//Connectors_Terminal_Blocks.pretty' does not exist from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp : FootprintEnumerate() : line 1786

i have also googled it and found some information like this topic in kicad forum Error Encountered IO_ERROR: Footprint library path
:

I have seen this error myself. So far on the Windows version at work.
It is (nor can it be) connected to the Internet.

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bobc Nov '16 The method kicad_plugin.cpp:FootprintEnumerate() is
designed to load from a local folder, not a URL, so it will throw an
error if it gets a URL.

I guess that could happen if you have a footprint table entry set to
KiCad when it should be Github, or there is a bug in the cache
handling in KiCad.

But i don’t get any idea for solving it!!!

Also from installation KiCad for linux MINT in this site i get this suggestion:

If you prefer to use the shell, you can enter these commands into a
terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5.1 sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-suggests kicad This will perform a full
installation of KiCad. If you don’t want to install all packages you
can use:

sudo apt install kicad If you don’t do a “full installation” you
should be interested to install also:

kicad-libraries: a virtual package that will recommend you to install
footprints, symbols, templates and 3D

kicad-symbols, kicad-templates, kicad-footprints, kicad-packages3d: if
you want to manually select what library to install.

but i can not install this command:

sudo apt install --install-suggests kicad-libraries

i get this error:

so@notebook:~$ sudo apt install --install-suggests kicad-libraries
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package kicad-libraries

i also can not install new version by this codes:

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5

i get this error:

so@notebook:~$ sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5

Adding PPAs is not supported

So is there any what to install it by linux command code or i must reinstall it or add footprint libraries manually?

this question link via stackexchange site:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/464031/errors-were-encountered-loading-footprints-kicad-plugin-cpp-footprintenumerat

Please help regarding this.

[qu1ck]

Looks like LMDE doesn’t support ppa repos so you will probably have to use debian backports.
Try following instructions here for buster backports https://kicad.org/download/debian/

[Rene_Poschl]

It also seems like you have version 4 libraries (lib names are plural). If you have kicad version 5 then definitely read this: I had KiCad 4 installed previosly. Now i updated to v5. Now i have some problems with the library setup

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Edit: i originally missed the stackexchange link. In that post there are screenshots which seem to indicate that @So_Test has kicad version 4 installed. Meaning my answer here is a bit pointless. (I detailed how he could manually install libs in v4 over on stackexchange)