Added ppa ok
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mongrel@CADboss:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable
[sudo] password for mongrel:
This PPA repository hosts stable releases of FreeCAD for all supported versions of Ubuntu in 32 and 64-Bit architecture. These packages are more up to date than those found on the Ubuntu repositories.
Note: the freecad-doc package brings offline FreeCAD help support, and needs to be installed separately..
Note: the ccx package brings CalculiX support to the FEM workbench, and needs to be installed separately.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~freecad-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/freecad-stable
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmptvr47nja/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmptvr47nja/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 19BB5BCA from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmptvr47nja/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 19BB5BCA: public key "Launchpad PPA for FreeCAD maintainers" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
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sudo apt-get install freecad
going back to rtfm after purging freecad and re adding the ppa. I get this:
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sudo apt-get install freecad freecad-doc && sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
freecad : Depends: freecad-python2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
What have I done wrong and how do I fix it?