Looks like some environment variables visible under 'preferences-> configure paths are fixed to values starting /usr/lib while the symbols / footprints / templates dirs in the current nightly are actually located at /usr/share/kicad-nightly/…
i located kicad_common.json where the paths are defined, but had to understand that these settings are not taken into consideration by kicad.
any hint on how to solve this problem?
my settings:
- Ubuntu 20.04 (up-to-date)
- kicad-nightly (just checked if there are any updates available)
in detail:
Application: KiCad
Version: 5.99.0-unknown-f88d39b4f0~125~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.8.0-45-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11
Build Info:
Date: Apr 2 2021 08:04:12
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCC: 7.3.0
Curl: 7.68.0
ngspice: 31
Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON