Basic guide to setting up kibot in windows with WSL #264
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Hi @dbriscoe511 !
$ wget https://set-soft.github.io/debian/kibot.list
$ sudo cp kibot.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
$ wget https://set-soft.github.io/debian/kibot.gpg
$ sudo cp kibot.gpg /etc/apt/
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kibotThis will install much more tools, and upgrading any tool will be as easy as upgrading any other Ubuntu tool.
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I found some answers here: Working across Windows and Linux file systems
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Thanks for the tips! I edited the post with the better install methods you suggested. I was getting two errors with the netlist output for a second, before I figured out how to set the environment variables. I accidentally pasted both into this discussion, but I updated my original post to clarify. The netlist seems to not work occasionally for me now, maybe 10% of the time, but restarting the shell seems to fix it reliably. The ${VARIABLE} notation is what kicad uses for it's environment variables, and will substitute the path in the environment variable if it can find it, or throw an error if it cannot. Sharing windows environment variables will not work, since these are kicad specific. If you add something in preferences->configure paths, this is an environment variable. |
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This should be fixed by INTI-CMNB/KiAuto@212e2cb |
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KiCad should also replace environment variables there. This isn't a KiCad notation, this is UNIX shell notation. KiCad can replace ${ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_NAME} in anything referring to a file. And you can define the environment variable from outside KiCad, in your shell. According to Microsoft environment variables can be shared between both. |
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Hello,
By doing a Other errors I'm getting are (also by running WSL as admin, and the command as sudo): I guess the last one can be solved by installing pdflatex, but I was wondering if maybe a dependency was broken? |
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Hi @Unichord !
Installing
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Hi @set-soft, thanks again for the support, sorry but I'm not super familiar with Linux. This is what I get about Helvetica when running These fonts are not missing in that location. When running |
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I'm making some progress. Turns out This solved pdf generation problems. For future reference, this is what my KiBot is already usable as is, but I'm still getting this error: Which leads to a half-generated image (this is a small sample): And also this error during stp model generation, sorry for the wall of text, I don't know how to limit the number of lines: |
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I did some more tinkering, and I saw that the half-generated image is not the consequence of the error, but the cause. So I tried to delete the entire While running again @set-soft I consider my problems solved, if you need more information to debug and possibly fix stuff (I don't really know where the problem is), I can do some more tests, let me know. |
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Hi @Unichord ! |
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1. Install WSL
There are many guides on how to do this, but if you are on a modern version of windows, simply run in CMD as admin:
wsl.exe --installdism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestartdism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestartRestart your PC
Next, pick your distibution of choice. I used Ubuntu LTS 20.04 for simplicity
In CMD as admin run:
wsl --set-default-version 2Restart your PC
2. Install software to run Kibot
Open the WSL terminal and run:
sudo apt updatesudo apt upgradeinstall kicad
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releasessudo apt updatesudo apt install --install-recommends kicadinstall kibot and kiauto (updated with setsoft suggestions)
$ wget https://set-soft.github.io/debian/kibot.list$ sudo cp kibot.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/$ wget https://set-soft.github.io/debian/kibot.gpg$ sudo cp kibot.gpg /etc/apt/$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get install kibot3. Copy anything you need over from your windows environment to the Linux environment
- Windows stores these variables in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming” + kicad\ (= %appdata%\kicad), WSL stores them in ~/.config/kicad/ just copy the environment section of the JSON between these files
4. Running kibot
Once WSL is installed, the Shift+Rightclick menu will show "open linux terminal here" as an option. Once you are in the linux terminal in the correct directory kibot can be run as normal. Alternativly, in powersheel/cmd/git bash for windows run
wsl kibot5.Known issues/troubleshooting
Netlist output intermittently does not work, returns:
ERROR:Unknown KiCad dialog: KiCad PCB Editor Information (pcbnew_do - interposer.py:362) (kibot - kiplot.py:161)If schematic or 3d model exports are not working, Environment variables may not be set up properly
ERROR:Potential dialog messages: {'F.Cu (PgUp)', 'B.Paste', 'Selection Filter', "Drawing sheet '${VARIABLE}/kicadpagelayout.kicad_wks' not found.", 'F.Adhesive', 'B.Adhesive', 'F.Paste', 'Appearance', 'B.Cu (PgDn)', 'OK'} (pcbnew_do - interposer.py:363) (kibot - kiplot.py:161) ERROR:pcbnew_do returned 9 (kibot - out_netlist.py:63)Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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