Mail Archives: geda-user/2018/04/27/18:17:43
Hi Chris,
Op 26-04-18 om 19:09 schreef Chris Green:
> First question, where does the 'local' entry in the add component menu
> come from? It doesn't appear to relate to an actual directory so it's
> just a nuisance really. Can one get rid of it?
I've wondered about this myself. It merely seems a placeholder directory
to remind users that they can link their own 'local' symbol directory
from there instead, but it's a bit mystifying all the same.
The way I deal with it is as follows:
- Choose or create a directory in your home directory for your (future)
local symbols, in your case e.g. /home/chris/electronics/local_syms
- Open a terminal
- cd /usr/share/gEDA/sym
- sudo rm local
- sudo ln -s /home/chris/electronics/local_syms local
You have now replaced the (empty) directory /usr/share/gEDA/sym/local
with a symbolic link to your own local symbol directory
(/home/chris/electronics/local_syms), again with the name 'local' in the
Add Component menu.
The point here of course is that you have full write permissions for
your own local symbol directory, so that you can create and alter
symbols there as you wish, without requiring root permissions all the
time to change things in /usr/share/gEDA/sym.
Yes, it's all quite convoluted and clumsy, and I too wonder why this
isn't a hugely simple menu option like it is in PCB (File -> Preferences
-> Library).
Then again: apart from these and some other quirks, gschem does the job,
and in many respects rather better than some commercial products I
worked with in the past.
(But if one of the insiders here can point out some vastly simpler
procedure I overlooked, that's always appreciated, of course!)
Best regards,
Richard Rasker
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