Come on, it's a very specific use case. I was talking in general, and in general (99.9% of the time) you get your software through distro repositories.triplus wrote:Actually we do support that now:
I made a quick search last night. Only Debian (specifically jessie-backports) provides an armhf package of FreeCAD 0.16.670x. ARM is a complicated architecture, I'm not sure armhf is what's required here.triplus wrote:But the AppImage is only provided for x86_64 architecture therefore it won't work on ARM7 architecture.
Raspbian (based on Debian) is an official distro for Raspberry Pi. I believe it would more suited to this hardware than Ubuntu 16.04, which I doubt is as optimized for low-powered ARM hardware. It may already include a freecad package but I haven't checked.