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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: wilfred on August 29, 2015, 05:22:39 am

Title: New Kicad user: Linux Mint 17.2 post install questions.
Post by: wilfred on August 29, 2015, 05:22:39 am

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Title: Re: New Kicad user: Linux Mint 17.2 post install questions.
Post by: awallin on August 29, 2015, 07:30:00 pm

Last time I tried this I made these notes (not sure if this has been fixed or not, if your KIGITHUB variable is empty you probably need this):
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add this line to ~/.profile
export KIGITHUB="https://github.com/KiCad"

For this to take effect you need to log out and then log in again. You should now see KIGITHUB defined in the under Preferences/Library Tables in Pcbnew.
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this will allow you to use the default libraries that are hosted on github. when you first use them it will take some time to download them so a fast internet connection is good to have.