Posted by squirp on Sep 12, 2012; 4:04pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Librecad-won-t-start-tp5707018p5707033.html

Well, I backed up my drive and installed Ubuntu 12.04 again and restored my users files and my fav apps - like VLC, Calibre, Blender, and tried to install LibreCad again - and got the same error!

I went to Google and the Ubuntu forums and tried all the suggestions, but noone in the couple of hours I spent on it seemed to know what "held broken packages" actually meant. After thinking about it I wondered if it might be something silly in my user files in my home directory.

I reformated and reinstalled Ubuntu - and first thing - installed LibreCad. Worked fine. I have restored bit by bit my system and so far okay. I was wondering if a config file might be causing problems. Found one for LibreCad in the .config/LibreCad folder in my backup. Didn't look particularly corrupt or hosed, but choose not to install it back.

So far no problems even with the sink.dxf file.

Let's close this thread as the original problem seems to be gone. Sorry don't have the config file any more. On the second reformat I backed up an empty file and overwrote the original.