Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Monday 06 June 2016 13:49:50 David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD
> > > > program, and never will.
> > >
> > > I suppose that when it was released, little over three years ago,
> > > it had a then decent CAD program.
> >
> > Thats not what I said or intended to say, and no it didn't have one
> > then either.
> >
> > That qcad fork, with no docs is the best its ever offered, and its
> > just qcad renamed & not even close to the last 1.0.7 release.
> > Freecad has run on every install I've tried it on over the last 4 or
> > 5 years, but not on debian wheezy. It too has a vertical learning
> > curve, decent docs, but even though Dan Heeks is or was on the team,
> > his heekscnc convertor got left behind. And none of its plethora of
> > other export data formats are readily converted the RS-274-D, the
> > N.I.S.T. std code format for this. Linuxcnc grew from that code
> > base, but has now been extended many many times So I haven't
> > propped a ladder against freecad and really really tried to learn
> > it. But first I'd have to pull the sources and see if I can build
> > it to run on wheezy.
>
> It appears to be in wheezy-backports.
So it is, but I cannot install it, synaptic claims broken packages, but
I click on custom -> broken and the list is empty. And clicking on fix
broken packages does nothing.
So synaptic seems confused, as is apt-get, but it at least names the
proken package, or does it:
root@coyote:/home/gene/src# apt-get -f install freecad freecad-doc
qt4-dev-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
freecad : Depends: libsoqt4-20 (>= 1.6) but 1.5.0-2 is to be installed
Depends: python-pivy (>= 0.5.0~v609hg-2) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: python-pyside but it is not going to be installed
qt4-dev-tools : Depends: libqt4-declarative (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-help (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-network (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-sql (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-xml (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-xmlpatterns (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqtcore4 (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqtdbus4 (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
Depends: libqtgui4 (= 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11) but
4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
But the only error I see is the version of the first package.
JVP, your turn I think. Is this fixable?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
Thanks, to both of you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Reply to: