Plugin location Ubuntu\ Refresh [solved]

External Plugins
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And what does

import os
os.environ['HOME']

typed in the python shell tell?

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The action plugins should go into ‘scripting/plugins’

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Output:

‘/home/’

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That’s why KiCad doesn’t find the plugins in your home directory, but I don’t know why python doesn’t see your home directory. I’ll let this be. Unless someone finds it out, you have to use the system-wide location which already worked even though it’s not the best solution.

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Sorry. I copied not all. The out is

'/home/<ME>'
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I expect that is a stunt actor for your actual username. Did you remove that part from the output of pcbnew.PLUGIN_DIRECTORIES_SEARCH? If yes, you should have told so. I expected to see what you see.

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I only have one account: ‘username’@‘usernamepc’.

pcbnew.PLUGIN_DIRECTORIES_SEARCH results in

u’/usr/share/kicad/scripting\n/usr/share/kicad/scripting/plugins\n/home/thomas/.config/kicad/scripting\n/home/thomas/.config/kicad/scripting/plugins\n/home/thomas/.kicad_plugins\n/home/thomas/.kicad/scripting\n/home/thomas/.kicad/scripting/plugins’

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