kikit libs installation path

[laenzlinger]

Prerequisites

• I have read FAQ
• I have searched existing issues (including closed ones)
• I use KiKit at least version 1.6.0 (older version are not supported)

KiKit version

1.6.0-2 (installed with pacman python-kikit)

KiCAD version

8.0.5

Operating system

arch linux

Description

First of all, thanks for providing kikit.

I was using it mainly via Kibot but for a new project wanted to use the panalize functions. Fro that I have used the footprints and symbol library.

After upgrading to KiCAD 8 (and moving to another computer), I got warnings about missing kikit libraries.

Therefore I followed https://yaqwsx.github.io/KiKit/v1.4/installation/gui_and_libs/ .

After installing the GUI and libs via PCM the libraries are found in:

s ~/.local/share/kicad/7.0/3rdparty/footprints
 footprints
└──  com_github_yaqwsx_kikit-library
    └──  kikit.pretty
        ├──  Board.kicad_mod
        ├──  Fiducial.kicad_mod
        ├──  NPTH.kicad_mod
        └──  Tab.kicad_mod

However, the official KiKit 8 installation on arch linux does not use this '7.0' path by default.

KICAD8_3RD_PARTY=~.local/share/kicad/8.0/3rdparty

Steps to Reproduce

• install KiCAD8
• install kikit with PCM
• check the location of the libraries

[laenzlinger]

I am not a KiCAD specialist, but a wild guess is that version 8 should be mentioned also here:

KiKit/pcm/kikit-lib/metadata.json

Line 32 in 309b937

"kicad_version": "7.0"

?

[yaqwsx]

I am not a KiCAD specialist, but a wild guess is that version 8 should be mentioned also here:

KiKit/pcm/kikit-lib/metadata.json

Line 32 in 309b937

"kicad_version": "7.0"

?

Based on https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/addons/index.html:

kicad_version: (required) The minimum required KiCad version for this package (major.minor).

To be honest, I would suspect a problem in arch packaging. I tested this on Ubuntu 22.04 and the libraries installed to a correct location. Could you verify that other PCM footprint libraries doesn't suffer from this problem?

[yaqwsx]

@laenzlinger : Do you have any inputs regarding this issue?

[laenzlinger]

Thank you for your answer. No sorry, I did not check anymore, I will have to look again into it, and try it again from scratch on arch. Feel free to close the issue, if you think its not relevant.