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 won't work!
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Hi Tibor,

Thanks again for your message and your feedback!

On 14-04-05 01:50 AM, gedah AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>
> Downloaded all, there's nothing strange in any of the files and it 
> worked like charm here, so it looks like something is broken in your 
> local PCB installation.

I originally had tried with the versions that come through the
distro's repositories --- Ubuntu 12.04, meaning it's gschem
1.6.2.20110115, xgsch2pcb  0.1.3, and PCB designer version
20110918.

Then tried installing from source  (downloaded the latest stable
as of maybe a week ago).  Nothing.  Tried installing it on a
CentOS 6.5 machine.  Nothing.  I even tried the PCB designer
20140316  (snapshot).  Nothing.

As for configuration files, locations of the symbols, etc., I do
have a $HOME/.gEDA/gschemrc containing these three lines:

(load (build-path geda-rc-path "gschem-colormap-lightbg")) ; light 
background
(log-window "later")
(component-library "/home/carlos/Amplifiers-PCBs-etc/symbols/" 
"User-defined Symbols")

(the User-defined Symbols item does show in gschem when I browse
for symbols, and the file LME49811.sym is in there)

As for the footprints, I just copied my files directly to
/usr/share/pcb/pcblib-newlib/generic

Here's the screenshot  (using R025 for the resistors' footprints,
and after doing disperse all elements, optimize rat nets, and
moving R2 --- just to see which line was what;  the two rat
lines where parallel, so it looked like just one line going from
R3 to R1):  http://www.mochima.com/tmp/pcb-screenshot.png

*However* --- there may have been something broken with the
symbol back then  (for example, yesterday, after your first
message, I went back and checked;  the LME49811.sym had
the NC pins with pintype=nc --- I know, shame on me for being
that sloppy!!  :-)  As you noticed, I fixed them, and they now
have pintype=pas)

Another possibility is that the procedure I'm following is not
correct --- I may be missing some steps, or doing them in the
wrong order, etc.

I guess I'll try again with the exact files I have now (the ones
that worked on your side) working with the newer versions
installed from source, and if it still doesn't work, I'll write again
and either send screenshots or I could go to the extreme of
uploading a video of my screen while executing the workflow.

Thanks,
Carlos
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