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On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Gene Heskett (gheskett AT shentel DOT net) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Greetings, new subscriber;
>
> Using gEDA as in the debian wheezy repo's, although I was able to get a
> newer pcb to build, so it is 1.99z.
>
> I have composed a little 6 part schematic in gschem, but when I do the
> translation gsch2pcb step, 4 of the 6 parts I chose schematic symbols
> for, have no "footprint" and are omitted from the pcb.  Loaded into pcb,
> it obviously makes no sense to this beginner.
>
> Can this data be added to the library part description?
>
> If so how?  And if I do it, how can I submit back to gEDA?

For the PCB workflow, you need to specify the "footprint" attribute in 
gschem. It is not possible to ship a generic purpose lib with footprints 
already set because most devices are available in different footprints 
(e.g. lm358 in SO8 or DIP8, 2n3904 in to92 or sot23 or even dual NPN 
in sot23 with 6 pins).

HTH,

Igor2