Installing Kikit on Windows or Linux - Error AttributeError: module 'kikit.plugin' has no attribute 'LayoutPlugin'

[camerahacks]

I was able to use the older version of Kikit but I have not been able to successfully use v1.1. I'm running Kicad 6.0.7 on both machines.

I'm getting the error below in both a Windows 11 and a Linux machine.

Here is the Windows error if I run kikit --version in Kicad command prompt:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\bin\Lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\bin\Lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\Scripts\kikit.exe_main.py", line 4, in
File "C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\site-packages\kikit\ui.py", line 2, in
from kikit import (panelize_ui, export_ui, present_ui, stencil_ui,
File "C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\site-packages\kikit\panelize_ui.py", line 7, in
from kikit.panelize_ui_sections import *
File "C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\site-packages\kikit\panelize_ui_sections.py", line 280, in
plugin.LayoutPlugin,
AttributeError: module 'kikit.plugin' has no attribute 'LayoutPlugin'

I installed it through the Kicad command prompt in Windows using pip and on the Linux machine, I just installed it using pip.

After installing the backend, I installed the package through PCM.

Although the kikit show/hide references plugin is under the External Plugins menu, the panelization plugin is not.

Any thoughts if I'm doing something wrong or if this is an error with v1.1?

[yaqwsx]

This seems like a corrupt installation to me (somehow, part of the project is at v1, and part of it is at v1.1) – please check what is the content of the file C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\site-packages\kikit\plugin.py.

[camerahacks]

I'm a little bit of a beginner with Python, but doesn't the blow mean it is pulling the module from the plugin folder instead of plugin.py?

Here is what I got from the scripting console in pcbnew:

Py 0.9.8
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jul 19 2022, 05:36:50) [MSC v.1932 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Startup script executed: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\kicad\6.0\PyShell_pcbnew_startup.py

from kikit import plugin
print(plugin.file)
C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\site-packages\kikit\plugin_init_.py

[camerahacks]

Copying and pasting the path didn't work as expected. The file path for the module is

C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\6.0\3rdparty\Python39\site-packages\kikit\plugin\_init_.py

[camerahacks]

Yeah, looks like that's the issue. That folder is in the PyPI package and is getting downloaded when installing with pip.

Looking at the source code, that folder is not there anymore for version 1.1

[yaqwsx]

You are right! Somehow the directory plugin ended up in one type of Python package. I made a release 1.1.1 that should fix this.

[ludiazv]

I checked and there is no docker image for this release. I tested v1.1.0 image and the same error is shown.
It would be appreciated if you update dockerhub with the last release.

[yaqwsx]

Thanks for noting; the docker images should now be up-to-date.

[ludiazv]

thanks now is working! Thanks for this great software!

[camerahacks]

Just updated through pip and it's working. Thanks for your work. Kikit is great!