Gentoo overlay waebbl for freecad

[clytle374]

Since I was asked to post here my results, here is what I have found. Note that I've been running Freecad from git for a long time, so no guarantee on all dependencies being met.

Package media-gfx/freecad-0.18.2-r1 seems to work without any build or run issues.

The media-gfx/freecad-9999 is failing on my system. Seems to be easy fixes to get it working. I've filed a bug report and what fixed mine (Not that I know what I'm doing, or it was the right way). When build it needs prefaced with to run. Probably only on nvidia systems.

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LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so FreeCAD

General howto install on Gentoo:

First you need to install Layman. It handles the overlays, overlays allow the adding of unofficial packages into Portage so they can be easily emerged.

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emerge --ask app-portage/layman

Should be sufficient to get layman running.

Now you need to add the waebbl overlay to the system.

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layman -a waebbl

Now when you run emerge there will be 2 Freecad packages available.

media-gfx/freecad-0.18.2-r1 and media-gfx/freecad-9999

They will be masked by portage, so you will have to allow them specifically to be installed by editing /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords and adding one of the 2 following lines.

For version 18.2 add the following

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=media-gfx/freecad-0.18.2-r1 ~amd64

For the development version

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=media-gfx/freecad-9999 **

Now

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emerge --ask freecad 

should install freecad.

Let me know if I made any errors here.
Thanks
Cory

[clytle374]

=media-gfx/freecad-9999 **

Is now fixed!

[Kunda1]

=media-gfx/freecad-9999 **

Is now fixed!

Nice, Upstream Downstream (technically more accurate) accepted your changes? URL ?

[clytle374]

=media-gfx/freecad-9999 **

Is now fixed!

Nice, Upstream Downstream (technically more accurate) accepted your changes? URL ?

They made a change to a path. Not my change, they did it the right way. Lol

The other issue fixed itself. It was a path issue with OCC.

https://github.com/waebbl/waebbl-gentoo

[waebbl]

Uh wow Thanks for advertising my overlay @clytle374

[clytle374]

Uh wow Thanks for advertising my overlay @clytle374

You're welcome. I'm still cooking from git at the moment because that is what I'm used to. I do use the opencascade overlay of yours since unlike freecad opnecascade doesn't run in place without being installed.

Thanks for your support of freecad.

Cory

[Kunda1]

Thanks for your support of freecad.

I 2nd this