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FS#54154 - [kicad] Package does not contain cvpcb.

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Herm (herm) - Sunday, 21 May 2017, 22:39 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 04 May 2021, 06:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Kyle Keen (keenerd)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Version 4.0.6-2 of the kicad package does not contain the program cvpcb. There is a launcher for it in
/usr/share/applications/cvpcb.desktop
but the binary does not exist.

While /usr/bin/_cvpcb.kiface exists trying to launch it directly from kicad crashes kicad. I have no idea if this is related or an independent bug.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Tuesday, 04 May 2021, 06:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Is for for the very ancient kicad 4.0, we are on 5.1 and sooon 6.0. I think this can be closed. cvpcb is no longer a "standalone" app, but merely a dialog of eeschema.
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Wednesday, 07 June 2017, 21:15 GMT
There hasn't been a cvpcb binary in our Kicad package since December 2015, the 4.0.0 release. Very odd. Digging into this but it might take a bit because Kicad is a fairly large project.
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Wednesday, 07 June 2017, 22:13 GMT
This appears to be intentional. Please read http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/4.0.6/en/cvpcb.html

They say to run eeschema and then launch cvpcb from there via the toolbar. This works. (It might generate some harmless warnings.) I believe there is no problem, just some confusion on your part.
Comment by Herm (herm) - Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 14:40 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
Please remove /usr/share/applications/cvpcb.desktop
if there is no corresponding binary to avoid confusing users.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 09 March 2018, 04:21 GMT
This was fixed upstream in https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=b30f1c69fbe9a08af1773de67b9160da8c3adbe8 but does not appear to have been included in their maintenance branch.

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