KDE Neon / Freecad

[Jonathan Riddell]

This is a limitation of neon indeed.  But there's new packaging formats
which mean we don't get into this sort of mess any more, just install the
snap
https://snapcraft.io/freecad

Jonathan


On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 09:48, Bernhard Schiffner <bernhard.schiffner at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> simply put: I want to use Freecad. But I can't do this under KDE Neon.
>
> Freecad makes use of Qt and Qt-Python bindings and is packaged in Ubuntu
> 20.04 against their stuff which collides with Neon.
> So you have to built it from sources. But this is not easy or even
> impossible (for me) at the moment.
>
> IIUC you have to do new / redo
> - libqt5scxml5
> - python2 (because of the qt parts)
> - (not yet known other software)
> - freecad itself
>
> I'am not experienced in packaging etc. so this task is (a little bit)
> beyond my limits esp. to figure out to make "decent" versions of this stuff.
> I think that Neon compatible Qt-Python bindings have a value of their own.
> I consider this a problem not only for myself.
>
> The question:
> Is there someone out there to ask for advise/support?
> What would be a good communication channel?
>
> Greetings and thanks in advance!
> Bernhard
>
>
>
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