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[rockola]

Took me a while to get back to this, sorry about that. Here are the steps I used to get the footprints from MadbeanV3ForKiCad.zip to appear in KiCAD on Ubuntu Linux.

• % mkdir ~/Documents/KiCAD
• % cd ~/Documents/KiCAD
• % unzip ~/Downloads/MadbeanV3ForKiCad.zip
• Start KiCAD (mine seems to be version 5.1.5+dfsg1-2build2)
• Choose Preferences/Manage Footprint Libraries...
  
• If a dialog titled "Configure Global Footprint Library Table" appears, just click OK to choose the default ("Copy default global footprint library table")
• Make sure the Global Libraries tab is selected when the "Footprint Libraries" dialog appears
• Click on the folder icon (the floating tooltip says "Add existing library to table")
• Select all the *.pretty folders under the ~/Documents/KiCAD/MadbeanV3ForKiCad directory and click OK
• Click OK in the Footprint Libraries dialog

The footprints should now be accessible in KiCAD. The ZIP file can be unpacked anywhere, it doesn't have to be where I put it.