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Re: Another new user

Posted by maqifrnswa on Sep 21, 2011; 2:17pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Another-new-user-tp4823956p4826514.html

Hi - first make sure you installed librecad-doc package, it should be
automatically installed but is listed as a "recommends" which on some
systems isn't installed.

If it is installed, you can grab the librecad package from Debian unstable.

Download librecad (for your architecture), librecad-data, and librecad-doc from:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libr/librecad/

to an empty directory, then run the command:

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

in that directory.


There is also a preview version for Ubuntu (which may also work for
LMDE.) Instructions are available:
http://librecad.org/cms/home/installation/linux.html


LMDE is as good of a distribution as any for librecad, and if you have
the package from debian testing then it has been shown to already
work. Can you run:

$ dpkg -s librecad | grep Version

and let me know what the output is?

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Battus [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks for the information Ries,
>
> As I said I'm running the latest release of Linux Mint Debian Edition (which
> is a rolling release based on Debian testing - whatever that means).
> Perhaps as a raw  beginner at Linux (I only installed LMDE a few days ago)
> I'd do better to install something a bit more stable.
> I don't want to base my choice of distro on one piece of software but I
> would like to do CAD so, as a matter of interest, under which Linux will the
> LibreCAD Help|Manual function work?
>
> Dick Summerfield,
> Eindhoven.
>
> At 22:38 20/09/2011, you wrote:
>
>>You can always use teh QCAD documentation as found here :
>> <http://www.qcad.org/qcad/manual_reference/>http://www.qcad.org/qcad/manual_reference/
>>
>>Please remember that QCAD evolved to version 3 and not everything that is
>> available in QCAD is
>>in LibreCAD.
>>
>>The reason why the doc doesn't appear in Debian is properly because you are
>> using a rc1 or lower
>>release.
>>
>>Ries
>>
>>On Sep 20, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Battus [via LibreCAD] wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>Today I installed LibreCAD under Linux Mint Debian Edition (latest
>>> release).
>>>I have the same problem reported by others i.e. the Help panes remainig
>>> empty when I choose Help|Manual.
>>>I was wondering, are the LibreCAD help files available somewhere for
>>> download?
>>>Alternatively: Is it possible to get by using QCad documentation?
>>>
>>>Otherwise the software appears very good. Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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