Re: wheezy backport of FreeCAD is not installable

[(Ami) Ahmad Touseef <ahmad.touseef@uoit.net>]

Michael C. Toren <mct <at> toren.net> writes:

> 
> I was very happy to see there is a version of FreeCAD in wheezy backports!
> However, it appears to be uninstallable for me.  After adding:
> 
> 	deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main 
> 
> to my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and doing:
> 
> 	sudo apt-get update
> 	sudo apt-get -t wheezy-backports install freecad
> 
> I see:
> 
> 	The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> 	 freecad : Depends: python-pivy (>= 0.5.0~v609hg-2) but it is not going
to be installed
> 		   Recommends: python-collada but it is not installable
> 		   Recommends: python-ply but it is not going to be installed
> 	E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list
        deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Then do
        sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install freecad

Free Cad problem solved "You have held broken packages" - Free Cad now 
installs like a breeze, without any problems.