The popup window when first trying to manage symbol libraries

[swmcl]

I’m building the computer with a new hard drive. I have my personal libraries saved on another disk. I mistakenly tried to load these as a custom library in the initial pop up window when I tried to manage symbol libraries. This was wrong. Now Kicad remembers what I did and I have no global libraries installed. Purging Kicad does not purge Kicad ! There is memory of previous projects and library settings etc.

How do I go back to a completely fresh install on Linux ??

I will be using the latest version.

[retiredfeline]

5.1 to 6.0 update - library problem

First check that you have all the required v6 packages, and none of the v5: dpkg -l | grep -i '^‘ii.*kicad’ You should have the v6 program and library packages and none of the v5 packages. If there are any v5 packages, remove them. The problem with the migration procedure is that if it isn’t done correctly the first time, the error persists. This is indicated by the fact that the path variable isn’t KICAD6_SYMBOL_DIR in your cae. To return to a blank slate you should delete your personal v…

The step you need is the rm -fr ~/.config/kicad/6.0

Do the personal libraries later.

[swmcl]

Cheers. I will try this after using Synaptic to remove kicad. No v5 here !

[swmcl]

Note: The desktop icon is not removed after asking for the program to be ‘completely removed’ …

[swmcl]

OK. I actually removed the whole kicad folder in the .config folder.

All is now back to normal - as though I had just installed kicad for the first time.

Thanks for your help retiredfeline.

[retiredfeline]

You didn’t really need to remove and reinstall the kicad packages. The saved state was always in your personal configuration directory. All you had to do was clear it so kicad would go through the first run initialisation again.