KDE Neon / Freecad

[Clay Weber]

And don't forget Freecad's own documentation. They provide appimages for their software as well as Ubuntu PPAs which of course work on Neon. Their packaging won't have the dep issues that Ubuntu's have. 


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On Oct 26, 2020, 7:38 AM, at 7:38 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>>