On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:07:23 Jack Chastain wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Chris Knadle

[...]
> jack@jack-SVE1713CCXB:~/Downloads/DraftSight$ dpkg --print-architecture
> amd64

Ah.  That's for the /native/ architecture.  To see the list of "foreign" 
architectures:

   $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

that should come up with i386, and would explain why you've got i386 packages 
installed.

> I'm out of time for the morning - I will get to the rest later. I am also
> going to look at LibreCad, I suppose - I am not necessarily wedded to
> DraftSight (particularly if they are going to remove my install and make me
> go through this now and again) - I just need a useable 2D system for making
> accurate drawings I can build from. the easier to use, the better (I have
> been using Visio for years)

LibreCAD is a fork of what was QCad v2.

You might be interested to see a comparison chart.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CAD_editors_for_AEC

  -- Chris

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