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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
