"No KiKit backend found!"
See original GitHub issue“No KiKit backend found! You probably installed KiKit only via PCM.”
I installed KiKit via pip3, then installed it via PCM, and my KiCad 6.00 complains that it cannot find the backend. How would I go about debugging and fixing this?
Some information I can give up front:
$ python3 /home/mark/.local/bin/kikit --version
kikit, version 0.6.1
$ which kikit
/home/mark/.local/bin/kikit
Python2 is my default python (because my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS requires it be this way) and I have Python3 installed alongside it. I installed KiCad 6.00 via the official release PPA from their website (not the nightly or the Canonical repository)
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This seems like a problem in KiCAD; I recently notices some of the stuff regarding plugins is broken.
Regarding the “registering plugin” - I removed the links. They refer to a no longer supported method of installing the GUI plugin. PCM is the only supported version.
The version in the PCM is indeed 1.0.0. The only thing that changed in the GUI plugin is the fixed bug with the broken OK button. I was considering it as minor back then and I was hoping to release a 1.0.3 version in a few days (that didn’t happen) so I postpone the update procedure in PCM. As it is a manual process that requires third parties involved.
The library is only necessary if you want to use the annotation symbols. There is no other use for it yet.
Apparently the problem wasn’t my distro’s KiCad build. I compiled it on my own now and am still experiencing the same problem.
Since the KiCad console keeps giving me errors though, I opened a bug report: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/10679