How do I install Kikit from github for kicad-nightly?

[polemon]

I cloned the repo, with the intention to install the latest git version into my kicad-nightly.

I tried running make release and make package but it didn't work, this is the error I'm getting:

rm -f dist/*
python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
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** Cannot install KiKit**
No Pcbnew Python module found for the current Python interpreter.
First, make sure that KiCAD is actually installed
.Then, make sure that you use the same Python interpreter as KiCAD uses.
Usually a good way is to invoke 'python3 -m pip install kikit'.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/bereziak/make/KiKit/setup.py", line 35, in <module>
    raise RuntimeError("Cannot install KiKit, see error message above") from None
RuntimeError: Cannot install KiKit, see error message above
make: *** [Makefile:29: package] Error 1

This is quite odd to me, as I certainly do have kicad installed:

$ which kicad-nightly
/usr/bin/kicad-nightly

The problem might be, that it's kicad-nightly not kicad however the process is complaining about the kicad-python module.

Is there any way I can simply build the plugin, and manually copy it into ~/.local/share/kicad/7.99/scripting/plugins?

[yaqwsx]

https://yaqwsx.github.io/KiKit/v1.4/installation/choosing_kicad/

Nevertheless, you probably just want pip install . if just want to install it (or pip install -e . if you plan on making local edits).

[polemon]

The information seems to be (somewhat) outdated:
The pcbnew.py file is located in /usr/lib64/kicad-nightly/lib64/python3.12/site-packages in my case.

Hence, I ran the make command as follows:

PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib64/kicad-nightly/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/ make

Giving me the following error:

PYTHONPATH=":/usr/lib64/kicad-nightly/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/" python3 scripts/panelizeDoc.py > docs/panelization/python_api.md
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/bereziak/make/KiKit/scripts/panelizeDoc.py", line 7, in <module>
    from kikit import panelize
  File "/home/bereziak/make/KiKit/kikit/panelize.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pcbnewTransition import pcbnew, isV6
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pcbnewTransition'
make: *** [Makefile:18: docs/panelization/python_api.md] Error 1

Not sure if this is related like this, or if I'm bumping in the same error...

I also tried your suggestion (pip3 install .):

$ PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib64/kicad-nightly/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/ pip3 install .
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Processing /home/bereziak/make/KiKit
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [15 lines of output]
      ====================================================================================================
      ====================================================================================================
      ** Cannot install KiKit**
      No Pcbnew Python module found for the current Python interpreter.
      First, make sure that KiCAD is actually installed
      .Then, make sure that you use the same Python interpreter as KiCAD uses.
      Usually a good way is to invoke 'python3 -m pip install kikit'.
      ====================================================================================================
      ====================================================================================================
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/home/bereziak/make/KiKit/setup.py", line 35, in <module>
          raise RuntimeError("Cannot install KiKit, see error message above") from None
      RuntimeError: Cannot install KiKit, see error message above
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

So, no joy with that one either...

[yaqwsx]

Did you read my response on your issue?

It appears that shapely 1.8.5.post1 (the latest <2) is not compatible with Python 3.12 due to removal of long deprecated code in pkgutil.

One of our dependencies is not working properly on Fedora 39. There is no fix for KiKit for that yet.