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kicad package

Improvement: notice new linux kicad users that they have to install the documentation separately

Asked by Bas Molenaar on 2017-05-20

My help functions were not working because I was not aware that I had to install the documentation separately from the program.
I only "apt-get installed" kicad, not aware that I also had to "apt-get install" kicad-doc-<language>

Clicking on "Help -> Getting started in Kicad" gave the error message "Html or pdf help file 'getting_started_in_kicad' could not be found" when the documentation was not installed. It would be helpful if that error message also asks: "Did you install the documentation?: apt-get install kicad-doc-<language>."

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2017-05-20
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2017-05-21
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

I suggest you report a bug. The devs may add the package as a dependency and it will install automatically.

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