bug#48336: kicad cannot see libngspice

[Christopher Howard]

In Kicad Eeschema, if I try to use the Tools >> Simulator menu entry, I get an error in a pop-up window that libngspice cannot be found, and then the whole Kicad application closes. I see that libngspice is a dependency of kicad so I'm not quite sure what is wrong.

I asked at #kicad at they said that Kicad does not have any gui-adjustable path settings for ngspice or libngspice, so I don't think I have the application configured wrong.

Thank you,

Christopher Howard

christopher@theoden ~$ neofetch --stdout

christopher@theoden 

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OS: Guix System 9ffa81fe64ee405e1a861b72a21bca966fcbc236 x86_64 

Host: OptiPlex 9020 00 

Kernel: 5.11.18-gnu 

Uptime: 8 mins 

Packages: 92 (guix-system), 104 (guix-user) 

Shell: bash 5.0.16 

Resolution: 1920x1080 

DE: GNOME 

Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 

Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 

Terminal: kitty 

CPU: Intel i5-4570 (4) @ 3.600GHz 

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 

GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8490 / R5 235X OEM 

Memory: 1673MiB / 7871MiB

christopher@theoden ~$ guix describe

Generation 16 May 03 2021 09:42:36 (current)

  guix 9ffa81f

    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

    branch: master

    commit: 9ffa81fe64ee405e1a861b72a21bca966fcbc236