ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pcbnew'

[martonmiklos]

Hello all,

I have a somewhat fresh install of KDE neon (Ubuntu 22.04) where I installed the Kicad nightly from PPA.

I have installed InteractiveHtmlBom plugin, but the icon did not appeared in the pcbnew.

I tried to run the scripting console and it greeted me with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/kicad-nightly/scripting/kicad_pyshell/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    import pcbnew
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pcbnew'

I only have Python3 installed:

mm@P15:~$ python
Python 3.10.6 (main, Mar 10 2023, 10:55:28) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux

My version info is:

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 7.99.0-unknown-dd8b52af93~170~ubuntu22.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.11.1
	HarfBuzz 2.7.4
	FontConfig 2.13.1
	libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.14

Platform: KDE neon 5.27, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, KDE, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Mar 23 2023 08:33:41
	wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.81.0
	ngspice: 38
	Compiler: GCC 11.3.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:

Yes the build settings section is empty.
Any help would be appreciated!

[John_Pateman]

The 7.99 version is a development ‘bleeding edge’ version and it is not considered stable. The latest ‘stable’ build is 7.0.1. Unless you really know what you are doing I would stick to using the 7.0.1 version. You also need to be aware that any designs you do in 7.99 can’t subsequently be opened by 7.0.x.

[martonmiklos]

Yeah I used the nightly to testdrive my contributions, but with the 7.0 release I have nothing in the pipe.
I installed 7.01 from PPA and it works correctly so it must be something regression in the nightly.
Many thanks for your advice!