Hi,
Dňa Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:50:08 -0800 Jeremiah Mahler
<jmmahler@gmail.com> napísal:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Slavko wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > some days ago the Kicad was updated in testing. Today i am trying to
> > develop one PCB, but the module (*.mod) files are missing. After i
> It is certainly broken. I tried opening a known working project I
> had and CvPcb generated lots of missing *.mod errors.
> I also couldn't open the pcb.
>
> I got around this problem by downgrading from the 0.20131208 version
> to 0.20130727. Luckily I had them in my /var/cache/apt/archives/
Finally i was success with the testing's KiCad version. Steps below.
Whole problem is coming from the change of footprints/modules syntax.
The KiCad was moved from the .mod files to the .pretty directories. But
this behavior became default from the bzr revision r4535, and the
library repository was changed and the .mod files was removed from it.
But old footprints repository is archived here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only
The new .pretty footprints format seems to be nice, because KiCad is
moving from libraries where more footprints was in one common file(s)
and new format is only one footprint in one .mod file and librery is
the directory which name ends with .pretty.
How to get old .mod files back to KiCad:
1, clone the bzr repo somewhere (i use the /tmp dir):
cd /tmp
bzr branch lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only
2, make and install it:
cmake .
make
sudo make install
- they will be installed into /usr/local/share/kicad, where kicad
can find them
3, create the footprints.pdf:
cd /usr/local/kicad/modules/footprints_doc
psmerge -ofootprints.pdf merge_ps-files.ps
Due naming changes (mostly only uppercase), the kicad.pro
need to be updated:
1, copy /usr/share/kicad/template/kicad.pro somewhere into writable dir
1a, open copied kicad.pro in kicad
2, open cvpcb from kicad, go to Preferences - Libraries, remove all
missing libraries and add new from /usr/share/kicad/modules/
2a, if one want, do the same for the Footprint alias files
3, open pcbnew from kicad, go to Preferences - Libraries, check
that libraries was changed
3b, set the path to the footprints.pdf
4, close kicad
5, copy kicad.pro back to the /usr/share/kicad/template/ (need root)
I suggest to make backup of the kicad.pro file, because it will be
changed on kicad-common update. Or do dpkg-divert on it...
To make the "New from template" to work, one can create symlink:
cd /usr/share
sudo ln -s kicad/template template
The steps need to do for all old .pro files or delete the project file
and create the new one...
I am sending copy to the BTS, perhaps it helps the maintainers too.
regards
--
Slavko
http://slavino.sk
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