Re: Kicad missing symbols and footprints

[Peter Polidoro]

phodina <phodina@protonmail.com> writes:

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> Hi Peter and Guillaume,
>
> thanks for the help.
>
> I've tried to use the Guix shell to have a complete environment 
> for Kicad but for some reason it does not work (at least for me)
>
> So here are the steps to reproduce:
>
> $ guix shell kicad kicad-footprints kicad-symbols -- kicad
>
> I start I new project and when I get the dialog about the 
> components I wish to use in the project it all starts to go 
> wrong.

The KICAD7_FOOTPRINT_DIR path seems like it is referring to a 
different profile. Did you change that environment variable 
manually or did that happen automatically? Maybe try passing the 
--pure option to guix shell to clear the environment variable 
definitions found in the parent environment.

$ guix shell --pure kicad kicad-footprints kicad-symbols -- kicad