KiCad Error When Adding New Components To Eeschema Library (Fedora 13)

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Jun 7 05:29:50 UTC 2010


On 06/07/2010 06:38 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> In Fedora 13:
>
> In Applications --> Electronics --> Circuit and PCB design --> KiCad:
>
> If you open Eeschema and then attempt to add a new component to the 
> component libraries as an ordinary user, you can't. That is because 
> everything in /usr/share/kicad/library is owned by root. That's a bug, I 
> think you would want to move the libraries out of /usr to some other 
> location that can be made writable to by a user. The intent of the 
> software is to allow users to add components to the component libraries.
>
> I think Wordpress in Fedora 11 and 12 had this same problem of 
> directories which should be user-writable located under /usr for a 
> while, and then it was fixed.
>   

Please file bug reports in http://bugzilla.redhat.com.  Thanks

Rahul



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