Installation on windows is flawless, you get kicad and its libraries with the libraries already set up and ready to use.
In linux you’re out of luck as no-one explains where the kicad-libraries package installs to, nor does the standard installation point to them by default. Does anyone know where the kicad-libraries package goes?
I’m running linux mint 19 using kicad v5. I followed the installation “directions” located here.
try
/usr/share/kicad/
They did not install under /usr/share/kicad
Is it possible you selected the nightly builds? These install somewhere else to allow running of nightly and stable on the same machine.
Did you read the faq article i posted above? (Did you ensure you have the library packages installed?)
@Rene_Poschl
My current version is: 5.0.2-bee76a0~70~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
I have just run an update on the kicad-libraries package by running “sudo apt install kicad-libraries”
My /usr/share/kicad folder contains plugins, scripting and template subdirectories only.
@eelik
kicad-libraries replaces kicad-library-all according to the kicad-libraries control file.
The control file can be found by unzipping one of the releases here.
kicad-libraries is meant to be a meta package to install all the libraries. It doesn’t seem to be working at the moment. The solution is to just install all of the packages manually as far as I can tell.
Edit: I’ve messaged js-reynaud via launchpad to see if it’s an actual bug.
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