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Error when starting pcbnew: failure to create plugins directory

Description

I get this message when starting pcbnew now:

Directory '/home/alex/.config/kicad/5.99/scripting/plugins' couldn't be created (error 2: No such file or directory)

Resolved by creating ~/.config/kicad/5.99/scripting manually.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start pcbnew without ~/.config/kicad/5.99/scripting present.

KiCad Version

Application: Pcbnew

Version: (5.99.0-3387-g45ca1709bb), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.72.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g zlib/1.2.11 zstd/1.4.5 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0

Platform: Linux 5.8.8-arch1-1 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK

Build Info:
	Date: Sep 17 2020 03:19:52
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.72.0
	OCC: 7.4.0
	Curl: 7.72.0
	ngspice: 32
	Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
	BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON