FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
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Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Any messages when you start from console or with parameter -l (small letter L)?
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Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Not a single message with
$ freecad -l
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R
© Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2019
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But one message with:
$ freecad
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R
© Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2019
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Unknown command 'Std_AddonMgr'
(That was the message)
$ freecad -l
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R
© Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2019
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But one message with:
$ freecad
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R
© Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2019
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Unknown command 'Std_AddonMgr'
(That was the message)
Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Yes Normand, freecad-common is installed by the command "sudo apt-get install freecad && sudo apt-get upgrade"
What does this mean: "freecad is now a metapackage." ?
Some advices in this thread tell me that freecad-common needs to be installed. Others tell me that it should be removed. I tried both. Freecad does neither work with nor without.
What does this mean: "freecad is now a metapackage." ?
Some advices in this thread tell me that freecad-common needs to be installed. Others tell me that it should be removed. I tried both. Freecad does neither work with nor without.
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Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
The "freecad" package just tells your system to install other packages which contain the actual files. These are:
* freeacd-common: things like images, icons, etc
* freecad-runtime: Python2/3 compatible runtime files
* freecad-python2 or freecad-python3: The actual binaries compiled against whichever version of Python
* libfreecad-python2-0.18 or libfreecad-python3-0.18: The library files used by the binaries
Try running dpkg -l | grep freecad to see which of these you have installed.
P.S. You don't really need to do sudo apt install and then sudo apt upgrade.
Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Thanks Normand, and all others,
I THINK that I followed your previous advice, i.e.: "Uninstall your freecad-doc package then update your system again, this should solve the issue." I did actually remove entire Freecad and updated thereafter. That did not help.
But now I did something else, and GOT IT WORKING! As follows:
sudo apt-get remove freecad*
Then the log showed that some freecad directories were not removed, because "not empty". They were obviously filled with files that the remove command did not recognise. Indeed, those were files made by myself to tweak freecad (a WB, templates for drawings). I removed those dirs by hand.
Then reinstalled with this command: sudo apt-get install freecad && sudo apt-get upgrade (SO WITHOUT freecad-doc).
AND BINGO. ALL IS THERE!
That's all for now and thanks for all your tips and suggestions!
I THINK that I followed your previous advice, i.e.: "Uninstall your freecad-doc package then update your system again, this should solve the issue." I did actually remove entire Freecad and updated thereafter. That did not help.
But now I did something else, and GOT IT WORKING! As follows:
sudo apt-get remove freecad*
Then the log showed that some freecad directories were not removed, because "not empty". They were obviously filled with files that the remove command did not recognise. Indeed, those were files made by myself to tweak freecad (a WB, templates for drawings). I removed those dirs by hand.
Then reinstalled with this command: sudo apt-get install freecad && sudo apt-get upgrade (SO WITHOUT freecad-doc).
AND BINGO. ALL IS THERE!
That's all for now and thanks for all your tips and suggestions!
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Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Hello,
I currently have the same problem, I can not install stable version 0.18, I can only install the daily version 0.18?
my system is ubuntu 18.04
Any suggestion?
thank you
I currently have the same problem, I can not install stable version 0.18, I can only install the daily version 0.18?
my system is ubuntu 18.04
Any suggestion?
thank you
my native language is not English, please excuse me any incorrectness, I apologize for any inconvenience caused, thank you
Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Have you read Roland's post directly above yours?
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Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
Yes, I tried that but it did not work ...
my native language is not English, please excuse me any incorrectness, I apologize for any inconvenience caused, thank you
Re: FreeCAD 18 upgrade broke on start
does it help if you uninstalling FreeCAD 0.17 with "purge" rather than just 'uninstall"?