Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Gene Heskett wrote on 06/09/16 17:59:
> On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-)
>>
>> The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the
>> wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100.
>> These priorities are normally set in /etc/apt/preferences. What is the
>> contents of this file on your system?
> 
> I don't have a file there, I have a preferences.d, and its empty.
> 
>> The easiest to try for your specific request is to list also the
>> dependencies explicitly in the apt-get command:
>>
>>    apt-get -s -t wheezy-backports install freecad freecad-doc
>> qt4-dev-tools libsoqt4-20 python-pivy
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> 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])
> 
> Which is as far as I got since the needed updated version of python-pivy 
> isn't available even from sloppy, and neither is the newer version of 
> libsoqt4-20 (1.6.0~e8310f-1~bpo70+1
> 
<snip>
Ah, the above command line has the "-s" switch for "simulate". Did you really
try to perform the installation?

  apt-get -t wheezy-backports install freecad freecad-doc qt4-dev-tools
libsoqt4-20 python-pivy

(in one command line).

Regards,
jvp.