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Sounds like you need to check your search path for symbol libs.  This
is usually in a file called .gafrc, or perhaps in .gschemrc.  There
may be a global copy in the place where you put your gschem
installation, and you may have a copy in your home directory.

I generally put a .gafrc into my project directory and use it to call
out the location of any local symbols I have created.

Stuart



On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Carlos Moreno wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have Ubuntu 14.04 and I had originally installed and used
> the gEDA version that comes through the distro's repositories
> (I believe it is the version from 2011).
>
> I recently downloaded PCB and gSchem from source and
> compiled them on my machine --- I did not remove the
> Ubuntu packages.
>
> PCB works with no issues as far as I can tell.
>
> However, I'm having trouble with gschem --- I can find no
> way to make the custom symbols work.  I have a schematic
> that I had created before installing the new version, and
> when I open it, I get warning/error icons at the positions
> where these custom symbols were used.
>
> I tried creating a new schematic, but then, none of the
> custom symbols I have show up in the list.  For example,
> I have an AD7357 symbol, which I created on .gEDA/symbols,
> and I also copied to /usr/share/gEDA/sym/local/ but it won't
> show up when I try to add a component on the schematic.
>
> I generated it with tragesym from a CSV description;  I *can*
> open the symbol from gschem, and it shows ok.  I also run
> gsymcheck and it shows ok:
>
>> [...]$ gsymcheck AD7357.sym
>> 
>> Checking: /usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/AD7357.sym
>> No errors found
>> 
>
> What am I missing?
>
> I'm attaching the AD7357.sym file just in case  (but it happens
> with all of the custom symbols --- I have no less than 10 or 20 of
> them).   Notice that I'm only interested in creating a schematic
> and then import it into PCB Designer to create the PCB layout.
>
> Thanks,
> Carlos
> --
>
>

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