I was previously running 5.1.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 and pointed to Legacy nightly Development Builds repo thinking it would install the latest 5.1.9 nightly. Instead it upgraded my 5.1.9 to 5.99
No big deal, guess its a sign I should really try out 5.99
The issue I have now is when I open any older schematic the symbols are missing.
Under symbol library I have
${KICAD6_SYMBOL_DIR} /usr/share/kicad/library
${KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR} /usr/share/kicad/library
The global libraries all still point to the legacy symbols.
When it upgrades looks like all the old legacy symbols were removed and the new symbols installed.
74xGxx.kicad_sym
74xx_IEEE.kicad_sym
74xx.kicad_sym
What do I need to do to “import” all the newer symbols?
These are all the packages that were installed
ii kicad 202102021520+c98c7cf200~101~ubuntu20.04.1 amd64 Electronic schematic and PCB design software
ii kicad-demos 202102021520+c98c7cf200~101~ubuntu20.04.1 all Common files used by kicad
ii kicad-doc-en 202012211304+1716~27~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad help files (English)
ii kicad-footprints 202101011204+2ba0d5cb6~10~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad footprints (modules)
ii kicad-libraries 5.1.9-202012230805+7~ubuntu20.04.1 all meta-package for dep to all KiCad libraries (symbols, footprints, templates and 3D models)
ii kicad-packages3d 202010150808+b8b3cfdf~8~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad packages3d (3d models for footprints)
ii kicad-symbols 202101251523+6c60d120~6~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad symbols (schematic)
ii kicad-templates 202101011218+f99cc6d~8~ubuntu20.04.1 all Kicad templates
I do not know what you did exactly, but “kicad” and “kicad-nightly” are separate (sets of) packages, and they can be installed at the same time.
“kicad” is for the stable version (Currently: V5.1.9)
“kicad-nightly” is for the nightly version (Currently V5.99, with lots of extra features and bugs)
I have both versions installed.
paul@medion:~$ apt search kicad
i kicad - Electronic schematic and PCB design softwa
p kicad-common - Old common files used by kicad - Transitio
p kicad-dbg - Debug symbols for kicad
i kicad-demos - Common files used by kicad
p kicad-doc-ca - Kicad help files (Catalan)
p kicad-doc-de - Kicad help files (German)
i kicad-doc-en - Kicad help files (English)
p kicad-doc-es - Kicad help files (Spanish)
p kicad-doc-fr - Kicad help files (French)
p kicad-doc-id - Kicad help files (Indonesian)
p kicad-doc-it - Kicad help files (Italian)
p kicad-doc-ja - Kicad help files (Japanese)
p kicad-doc-pl - Kicad help files (Polish)
p kicad-doc-ru - Kicad help files (Russian)
p kicad-doc-zh - Kicad help files (Chinese)
i A kicad-footprints - Kicad footprints (modules)
p kicad-its-files - Its file used to build KiCad on old distro
i A kicad-libraries - meta-package for dep to all KiCad librarie
p kicad-locale-bg - Bulgarian locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-ca - Catalan locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-cs - Czech locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-de - German locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-el - Greek locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-es - Spanish locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-fi - Finnish locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-fr - French locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-hu - Hungarian locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-it - Italian locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-ja - Japanese locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-ko - Korean locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-lt - Lithuanian locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-nl - Netherlands locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-pl - Polish locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-pt - Portuguese locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-ru - Russian locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-sk - Slovak locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-sl - Slovenina locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-sv - Swedish locale for KiCad
p kicad-locale-zh - Chinese locale for KiCad
i kicad-nightly - Electronic schematic and PCB design softwa
p kicad-nightly-dbg - Debug symbols for kicad
i A kicad-nightly-demos - Common files used by kicad
i kicad-nightly-footprints - Kicad footprints (modules)
i kicad-nightly-libraries - meta-package for dep to all KiCad librarie
i kicad-nightly-packages3d - Kicad packages3d (3d models for footprints
i kicad-nightly-symbols - Kicad symbols (schematic)
i kicad-nightly-templates - Kicad templates
i A kicad-packages3d - Kicad packages3d (3d models for footprints
i A kicad-symbols - Kicad symbols (schematic)
i A kicad-templates - Kicad templates
p libglm-kicad-dev - C++ library for OpenGL GLSL type-based mat
p libglm-kicad-doc - documentation for the OpenGL Mathematics (
Thanks, uninstalled and re-installed back to 5.1.9
Luckily I had just fixed my backup script the night before. Had to restore one of the projects as in 5.99 I saved the changes when it converted the PCB.