Re: gEDA-user: User library

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:18 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:

> I apologies for my ignorance, I am not sure that I enter the info
> correctly. Here what I did: File -> Preference -> Library, then entered
> ~/geda/pcb-elements, which is my footprint directory but nothing has
> changed anywhere. I also fallowed the example given in the preference ->
> library, no change ether. what am I doing wrong?
> Vinny 

>From PCB library dialog:

Elements should be organized into subdirectories...

>From the thread I mentioned:

http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Sep-2009/msg00167.html

>After using the "Files/Preferences/Library" dialog, you should create 
>one or more sub-directories under /home/comp/pwb_footprints and place 
>your footprints in them. On the footprint selection dialog, the 
>sub-directories should be visible on the left pane, with the 
>corresponding footprints on the right pane.

>Cesar

So give "~/geda/pcb-elements" and put your footprints in subdirectories
inside of this directory. Or try "~/geda", so that pcb-elements is one
of your subdirectories.




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