Hi, here the output when trying to start AppImage with no chance at all: ./FreeCAD-0.17.13541.9948ee4.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage /bin/bash: /tmp/.mount_FreeCAW3U48G/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /bin/bash) FreeCAD 0.17, Libs: 0.17R13541 (Git) © Juer...

hm ... maybe there is a similar issue here:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33429

problem here was: required Qt version `Qt_5.11'
installed Qt version: 5.9.5

question is, how to get the info which Qt version is necessary and how to change it.

hm ... now I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04, of cause formated harddisk. I only loaded Ubuntu, tried to load freecad appImge without success, than FreeCad ppa, and openfoam 5, installed in /opt, dependencies worked after linked paraview into /bin ... but did not start when calling from freecad, cfdof ... ...

Hi Oliver I really frustrated now. The appImage does not work at all, of cause I tried to make it workable, but installation failed. Trying to work with the ppa version gives same problem, even by installing version 0.17, missing or wrong Qt 5 ... I do not know, but I have the impression that this i...

I have a problem to refine the meshing. _TaskPanelCfdMeshRegion File "/home/peter/.FreeCAD/Mod/CfdOF/_TaskPanelCfdMeshRegion.py", line 40, in <module> import CfdFaceSelectWidget File "/home/peter/.FreeCAD/Mod/CfdOF/CfdFaceSelectWidget.py", line 47, in <module> from PySide import QtUiTools cannot imp...

well Bernd

I think that is the best way, and I switsched back to gmsh 3.0.6, now it is working.

Btw I tried to compile against opencascade, but ... it is just horrible with the dependencies and the descriptions to compile different packages are more like chinese language for me ...

regards
Peter

Now I totally frustrated ... I reinstalled the complete Ubuntu, because I thought I had produced some failures by my own ... So a fresh hard disk, with a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.1 ... and ppa for daily and stable as well as for community extra ppa. First installed daily, second stable release, from the e...

moin I had a small problem with my computer ... and after more or less rebuilding, nearly everything is working, except FEM and CfD with FreeCAD. In both cases meshing is not possible, in the FEM WB: Gmsh requires OpenCASCADE to import shape What I do not understand, Gmsh is newest version: gmsh ist...

dear all, just want to report latest status. After all attempts to fix the problem and some crashes with other programs, I completely clean out the computer and installed a brand new Ubuntu 18.041 ... and of cause the rest of the programs ... and now it works and also no crashes in other programs. I...

moin Thomas

normally Linux is not a problem at all, as stated, everything was fine with Ubuntu 16.04, but changes to Ubuntu 18.04 created the problem. I think it`s same when you change i.e. from Windows 7 to windows 10, the chance that all programs would run as before, will be near zero ...