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PPA gave me v0.15

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Hi Guys. Just setting up a new computer. Just installed Ubuntu 16.04. Freecad was the first thing I wanted to install.

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
Then started winging it (didn't rtfm) and did

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sudo apt-get install freecad
Which installed version 0.15... I was hoping for 0.18.1....

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?
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Re: PPA gave me v0.15

Post by Mongrel_Shark »

Oh almost forgot. I will want the daily 0.19 and legacy 0.16/0.17 (before PDN) as well.
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Re: PPA gave me v0.15

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Update

I found this thread https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=36199
which sugested removing the freecad-docs from the cli command. Which got me running v0.18.1.

Now I just need legacy and daily builds too.... I think there is a link for that. I'll be back after a google.
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Re: PPA gave me v0.15 [solved]

Post by Mongrel_Shark »

Making this solved because problem in title was solved by not installing the feecad-doc package.
Note i was also able to install freecad-doc after doing the freecad upgrade.

I've googled a bit about the side by side installs for 0.16 and Daily. No luck, even though I'm sure I have seen something before. If anyone has a link for me that would be awesome.
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Re: PPA gave me v0.15

Post by triplus »

On Ubuntu 16.04 there is stable PPA providing freecad-python2 package. There is daily PPA, but it doesn't get updated anymore (Ubuntu 16.04).

P.S. There is an AppImage option available:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/rele ... g/0.19_pre
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