Command error. Return code 1 [KiCad 5.1.5] [MacOS 10.15.4]

[hofstragroup]

I'm trying to set up kibom for the first time. I want to run it from within kicad Bill of Material window. The first issue I ran into is that, contrary to readme, I could not find any file "KiBOM_CLI.py". So instead I selected main.py when adding the kibom plugin.

When I run python "/Users/user1/Library/Preferences/kicad/scripting/KiBoM/kibom/__main__.py" "%I" "%O" I get Command error. Return code 1 Error messages: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/peer/Library/Preferences/kicad/scripting/KiBoM/kibom/__main__.py”, line 26, in <module> from .columns import ColumnList ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package and no output

If I instead add the plugin by selecting init.py and running "/Users/peer/Library/Preferences/kicad/scripting/KiBoM/kibom/__init__.py" "%I" "%O I see a success message and eeschema xml netlist created in project directory.

Please help me set up KiBoM.

[SchrodingersGat]

The KiBoM_CLI.py script is now outdated, please refer to the usage details here: https://github.com/SchrodingersGat/KiBoM/blob/master/README.md#usage

Hope this helps! LMK if you still have issues.

[hofstragroup]

Thanks for responding. I did attempt the method suggested in the readme, namely installing the script via pip and then running via kicad with python -m kibom "%I" "%O.csv". There are a couple problems with this on macOS. The first is that the macOS version of kicad requires that a file be selected when adding a BOM plugin. I got around this by selecting a dummy file and then typing python -m kibom "%I" "%O.csv" in the BOM plugin command line. The second problem is I have been unable to get kibom installed for the same version of python that kicad uses.

I believe that part of the difficulty relates to kicad on macOS using python 2.7 which is deprecated. So, while pip3 install kibom succeeds, pip install kibom fails. I then tried python2.7 -m pip install kibom which also fails with an error associated with md5 and openssl. After upgrading openssl and importing hashlib to get past the md5 issue, I got python2.7 -m pip install kibomto run successfully, but this still doesn't associate kibom with the correct version of python.

I know from python –version within kicad that kicad is using python2.7.16, but I believe that python2.7 -m pip install kibom is installing kibom for python2.7.15

How should I install kibom for the same version of python being used by kicad?