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by onekk » Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:43 am

henryadams wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 24, 2023 7:59 am

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Sadly many distributions, have some strange “politics” about what they consider updated software.

See maybe:

https://www.freecad.org/downloads.php

https://wiki.freecad.org/Installing_on_Linux

For short:

0.20 is the actual stable version, 0.18 is way too old.

Ubuntu PPA that FreeCAD is used to maintain, now has no maintainer, (at least from what I know, if nothing is changed from the last week).

AppImages are the advised version to use.

Conda Install are good way too, but are very heavy as they install a sort of “protected environment” (anaconda o miniconda), I’ve used them and they are a good way, despite the disk space used, you could use a development version and a stable version in parallel, with a simple shell script to set a separate “FreeCAD user directory” for each of them.

AppImages are similar but supply this environment in a sort of container that is decompressed in a temporary directory and run from there, usually are a very good way to use FreeCAD if you don’t want to fiddle with strange programming things. I use it daily from 3 years and I had no problem at all, same as Conda you could have two AppImages, one for stable and for development and two launch scripts that set separate user directories.

WARNING: If you wish to try 0.20 as example beware that if you open a 0.18 file this file is not guaranteed to be compatible with 0.18 anymore when saved.

Hope it helps.

Regards

Carlo D.

Sadly many distributions, have some strange “politics” about what they consider updated software.See maybe:For short:0.20 is the actual stable version, 0.18 is way too old.Ubuntu PPA that FreeCAD is used to maintain, now has no maintainer, (at least from what I know, if nothing is changed from the last week).AppImages are the advised version to use.Conda Install are good way too, but are very heavy as they install a sort of “protected environment” (anaconda o miniconda), I’ve used them and they are a good way, despite the disk space used, you could use a development version and a stable version in parallel, with a simple shell script to set a separate “FreeCAD user directory” for each of them.AppImages are similar but supply this environment in a sort of container that is decompressed in a temporary directory and run from there, usually are a very good way to use FreeCAD if you don’t want to fiddle with strange programming things. I use it daily from 3 years and I had no problem at all, same as Conda you could have two AppImages, one for stable and for development and two launch scripts that set separate user directories.WARNING: If you wish to try 0.20 as example beware that if you open a 0.18 file this file is not guaranteed to be compatible with 0.18 anymore when saved.Hope it helps.RegardsCarlo D.