Getting Started step 50: footprints not getting linked to symbols

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For anyone else running into this issue, I found a write-up of basically what ended up doing. The write-up is here:

I installed KiCad 5 but there are no libraries. (The default option for sym lib table setup is disabled)

On most systems the libraries can be installed seperately. Meaning it is possible to install kicad without libraries by accident. Most Linux distributions have split up the packages for kicad installation. One package only installs the software (KiCad itself) while others install the libraries. The reason for this is that the 3d model libs are now quite large. In addition this is how a lot of distros suggest this sort of thing to be handled (separation of installers for software and data) Si…

Maybe the Mac install has some issue.