I've had the same difficulty before.

I've found that you have to create a distinct name for that footprint.
When adding a new package, a dialog will come up, asking for the name.
I simply add the package type as a suffex.  Once done, everything works
alright....the variant name shows up in the library under the basic type
(if more than one variant exists).

example in library editor:
variant name 1: TC7660_dip8
variant name 2: TC7660_soic8

This has worked for me, but I'm just getting started with eagle too....

DD


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 10:49, Duane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When creating a part that comes in different footprints, how do you
> associate the different footprints to the part?  When I try to add another
> package I get the following error:  Package variant " already defined!
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Duane
>
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