Where is the passive components symbol in KiCad 6.0?

Schematic Library Symbols
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I have added Official KiCad schematic symbol libraries into KiCad 6.0, but I haven’t found the passive components - resistor, capacitor, inductor…

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Did you start a new project and open the schematic editor to design your circuit?

If yes, did you press A and press left-click on a plank area?

If yes, did the window open and your symbols are not there?

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Passive component symbols are located in the “Device” library. You can also find them by typing R, L, C etc. in the search box.
If you still can’t find these symbols, make sure you have added the libraries in the “Preferences” → “Manage Symbol Libraries…”

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Edit: NVM I’m being dumb

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Yes, the window opened and symbols were not there.

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Thanks for your suggestion -

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Passive component symbols are located in the “Device” library.
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I downloaded it here - Device, and then they were there.

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The new question is : where is VCC, GND and pushbutton?

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There are over 150 symbol libraries. Did you install them?
It is worth spending a little time exploring those libraries.

Push button is in “Switches”
VCC & GND are in “Power”.

Cheers, Jan.

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I found VCC and GND here - SparkFun_SchematicComponents.lib, and pushbutton, I found it was told “CircuitBreaker” in KiCad component master library.

You said"There are over 150 symbol libraries", where are they?

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Hello @MianQi

What is your OS and from where did you download?

You can copy/paste your information from: help /about kicad / top RH corner.

This is the official site for downloads: https://www.kicad.org/

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The libraries should have been part of the install. You haven’t mentioned which operating system you are on. Spark Fun libraries are not part of a standard install so these must be from elsewhere. The power symbols are entered using the ‘p’ key. What does ‘Preferences’ → ‘Manage symbol libraries …’ show?

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My OS is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, ‘Preferences’ → ‘Manage symbol libraries …’ was empty just after I installed. Actually, the component library and device library were all downloaded desperately.

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I saw it : "This will perform a full installation of KiCad. If you don’t want to install all packages you can use: ```
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends kicad. I have selected this, maybe this is the reason.

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Correct. You just installed the program without libraries.

Probably easiest to just install again. You can omit the demos, if you wish… the last line in the shell command.

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I tested it:
Since I ran sudo apt install --no-install-recommends kicad before, so merely run sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad is not enough, one should run it, then reboot, then add the library file say “power.kicad_sym” in “Preferences”, then it would work.

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Sorry, I should have said delete your Kicad installation and then just reinstall the full program this time, including the libraries.

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How to delete KiCad on Ubuntu?

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sudo apt remove kicad

or ftom the GUI software manager (I’m not familiar with Ubuntu’s, it’s been a long time since I tried it).

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I tried, these workflow didn’t get as expected:
sudo apt remove kicad*
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad

Since after that, there was still no libraries I want in “/usr/share/kicad”.

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You should have usr / share / kicad / footprints & usr / share / kicad / symbols.
Do you have these?