FreeCAD 0.19 Debian without GUI- How to install?

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NextOne
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FreeCAD 0.19 Debian without GUI- How to install?

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Hello everyone

I encountered some problems with installing FreeCAD on Debian without GUI. I need 0.19 version because I want to view my models as WebGL in .html. v0.18 seems to be far behind in functionality and performance in this aspect and models created using v0.18 are not compatible with v0.19.

I tried to install FreeCAD with:

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apt-get install freecad
but it downloads 0.18 version.
I also tried to install 0.19 from GitHub:
FreeCAD_0.19-24291-Linux-Conda_glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage

But it couldn't install properly throwing following errors:

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Log: Init: Initializing freecad.appimage
Log: Init: No init module found in freecad.appimage, skipping
...
Log: Init: App::FreeCADInit.py done
Log: Init: Creating Gui::Application and QApplication
Log: could not connect to display 
Log: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
Log: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, webgl, xcb.
Sorry if question is too obvious I have spent much time trying to solve that problem on my own, but found nothing
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Re: FreeCAD 0.19 Debian without GUI- How to install?

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

Did you check already the Known OS specific issues?
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Re: FreeCAD 0.19 Debian without GUI- How to install?

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chrisb wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:44 am Did you check already the Known OS specific issues?
Nothing there helps in my case I still can't find any answers
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Re: FreeCAD 0.19 Debian without GUI- How to install?

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Re: FreeCAD 0.19 Debian without GUI- How to install?

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Does it work to pass the option "-c"?
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