This is the ppa i was refering too there is Freecad-Stable and Freecad-daily builds.
https://launchpad.net/~freecad-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/freecad-stable On January 2, 2021 8:53:13 PM PST, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >On Saturday 02 January 2021 22:02:19 Chris Albertson wrote: > >> You are using the "Alpha" version and complaining of problems? There >> are new problems every week. I just checked the "known problems" >list >> and #1 is "crashes on startup". >> >> To install the stable version it is simply "sudo apt-get install >> freecad" >> >Which gets you the 3 yo .18 version, and not built as an appimage. And > >that's had around 300 megs of additional code committed since then and >has been made a/o v.18 that you can get from freecad, into an AppImage >that is totally self contained and has never crashed. The current dl of > >that appimage which is assembled when you request the dl, is running >right now and has been for around 3.5 hours now. If it crashes, then >I'd >submit that the user didn't install it correctly. I put AppImages like > >it and cura, in their own AppImages subdir of /home/me and have only >had >one cura-4.7.1 crash, which has not repeated after using its updater to > >bring it up to 4.8.0. 4.7.1 was the crasher and it lasted less than a >week before 4.8.0 was released. > >Yes, AppImages are bulky, but they are entirely self contained for ALL >dependencies. If you've the drive space, its the way to go. > >I also have DeskProtoCAD as an appimage, but it will be wiped at some >point, they want it to be paid for before it will run. Screw that, I am > >not that impressed that I'll buy that pig in a poke sight unseen. >Particularly since its appimage is less than 10% of the freecad >appimage. That boat sailed a long time ago. > >Thanks, Have a better 2021 Chris, & stay well. > >Cheers, Gene Heskett >-- >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law >respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
