Re: Kicad missing symbols and footprints

[Guillaume Le Vaillant]

phodina via <help-guix@gnu.org> skribis:

> Hi,
>
> does somebody use Kicad on Guix? If so how do you load the symbols and 
> footprints.
>
> The point still to /gnu/store/<HASH>-kicad-7.0.8 but they are in 
> kicad-symbols and kicad-footprints packages.
>
> I've changed the paths appropriately as well as cloned the repo to home dir 
> but I always get just an empty list.
>
> ```
> $ guix show kicad
> name: kicad
> version: 7.0.8
> outputs:
> + out: everything
> systems: x86_64-linux
> dependencies: bash-minimal@5.1.16 boost@1.80.0 cairo@1.16.0
> + curl@7.85.0 desktop-file-utils@0.26 gdk-pixbuf@2.42.8
> + gettext-minimal@0.21 glew@2.2.0 glm@0.9.9.8 gtk+@3.24.37
> + hicolor-icon-theme@0.17 libngspice@41 libsm@1.2.3 mesa@23.1.4
> + opencascade-occt@7.6.2 openssl@3.0.8 pkg-config@0.29.2
> + python-wrapper@3.10.7 python-wxpython@4.2.0 swig@4.0.2+ unixodbc@2.3.9 
> wxwidgets@3.2.2.1 zlib@1.2.13
> ```
> Petr

Hi.
If you install the kicad-symbols and kicad-footprints packages, kicad
should be able to find them using the KICAD7_*_DIR environment
variables.

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