Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Tuesday 07 June 2016 11:10:19 Curt wrote:
> On 2016-06-07, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> >> Installing (in simulation mode because it pulls in an enormous
> >> amount of stuff) freecad and freecad-docs in Wheezy LTS from Wheezy
> >> backports works for me (why qt4-dev-tools?) using apt-get.
> >>
> >> Viz
> >>
> >> apt-get -s -t wheezy-backports install freecad freecad-docs.
> >>
> >> Or maybe I'm not following you closely enough. Should be
> >> straight-forward (famous last words).
> >
> > And these are in that category, emphasis on gory.
> >
> > oot@coyote:/home/gene# apt-get -s -t wheezy-backports install
> > freecad freecad-doc Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> > libsoqt4-20 python-pivy qt4-dev-tools
> > Suggested packages:
> > qt4-doc-html
> > Recommended packages:
> > qt4-designer qt4-doc
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > freecad freecad-doc qt4-dev-tools
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> > libsoqt4-20 python-pivy
> > 2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
> > Inst libsoqt4-20 [1.5.0-2] (1.6.0~e8310f-1~bpo70+1 Debian
> > Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386]) Inst qt4-dev-tools
> > (4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 Debian
> > Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386]) Inst python-pivy
> > [0.5.0~v609hg-1] (0.5.0~v609hg-3~bpo70+1 Debian
> > Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386]) Inst freecad
> > (0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 Debian Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386])
> > Inst freecad-doc (0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 Debian
> > Backports:/wheezy-backports [all]) Conf libsoqt4-20
> > (1.6.0~e8310f-1~bpo70+1 Debian Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386])
> > Conf qt4-dev-tools (4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 Debian
> > Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386]) Conf python-pivy
> > (0.5.0~v609hg-3~bpo70+1 Debian Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386])
> > Conf freecad (0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 Debian
> > Backports:/wheezy-backports [i386]) Conf freecad-doc
> > (0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1 Debian Backports:/wheezy-backports [all])
>
> Right, so no problem. Your sources.list is irregular (not quite the
> word perhaps)
But your KDE isn't 100% usable, the TDE version is.
> and there must be another freecad version in one of
> those irregular repositories because freecad is not available in
> vanilla Wheezy at all.
If you look above, the only mention for the source of the file is from
wheezy-backports.
> I thought we were talking about the version in wheezy-backports, which
> prompted me to post what I posted.
That is where it would come from as its enabled in the sources.list. So
it seems odd that it is there in a recent enough version, but its newer
required dependencies are not.
That's a bug IMO. But since its well known that my interests are at best
described as "eclectic", my oar in those waters is just a toothpick.
Sigh....
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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