Maybe I suck a Google, but I just can't quite figure this out.
Using 4.0.6 if it matters
I needed some schematic symbols that the core install didn't have, so I looked at the GitHub Kicad repo. I discovered there is allot more available than the core install gave me.
Here's where I have difficulty. I swear I've read that you don't have to download everything, but that you can make the GitHub repo searchable from within Kicad, just as if it were stored on your computer. How do you set this up?
I ended up downloading the whole shebang. I put it in its own folder, so as not to corrupt the one Kicad uses naturally.
Another thing. I saw a YouTube video where the guy (Chris Gammel) clicked the "add library" box, and instead of a folder with filenames (what I get when I click it), he had a list of libraries, with check boxes. That's what I want! How'd he get that?
I believe Chris is using Linux. I'm on Windows, so possibly that's part of it?
If yer out there Chris, that video would have really benefited from not glossing over that bit!