Installation
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:09 am
There was a request for more detail on installation by "impert" in a thread called "Installation on Ubuntu 7.10" in this forum. I thought that it would be a good idea to generalise the method of installation to include other Linux distributions. My own installation and testing was on an PC box with amd64 dual processor with openSUSE 10.3 and KDE desktop. The procedure is very simple indeed and should apply to any other distro. This is a step-by-step description for a Linux beginner:
1. Select a suitable root directory for installation. Help files in qcad (5.1) suggest /opt as probably suitable. I followed that suggestion. The tar ball for demo version or for pro version on my amd64 is located in a subdirectory of Documents directory:
The pertinent tar ball is copied to the /opt directory, extracted into subdirectory, which is then renamed qcad. It is advisable to carry out all the operations as root (aka "superuser"). The steps for the demo version are:
Of course, it would not do any harm to check that these steps worked by looking at the results (with "ls" command or something similar).
2. The program can now be started in CLI (aka "Console") whilst the present work directory is /opt ("pwd" will verify what the present work directory is). In openSUSE the default promt for the root user would probably be "/opt #"):
The last step (2.1) can be replaced by creating a link to application (qcad) on the desktop and editing the Properties -> Application -> Command to show '/opt/qcad/qcad'
Step 1.2 for the pro version looks a little different, as "-demo"is replaced by -"prof".
If you are familiar with Linux, please forgive me for writing this in such detail: my hope is that some CAD users will switch to Linux because of this fine, relatively inexpensive CAD program!
Disclosure - I have no pecuniary interest in this enterprise.
OldAl.
1. Select a suitable root directory for installation. Help files in qcad (5.1) suggest /opt as probably suitable. I followed that suggestion. The tar ball for demo version or for pro version on my amd64 is located in a subdirectory of Documents directory:
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For the demo version:
/home/ak/Documents/downloads/CAD/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz/
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1.1 cd /opt
1.2 cp /home/ak/Documents/downloads/CAD/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz ./
1.3 tar -zxvf /home/ak/Documents/downloads/CAD/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz
1.4 mv qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz qcad
2. The program can now be started in CLI (aka "Console") whilst the present work directory is /opt ("pwd" will verify what the present work directory is). In openSUSE the default promt for the root user would probably be "/opt #"):
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For the demo version:
2.1 /opt # qcad/qcad-demo &
For a full version the command is:
2.1 /opt/ # qcad/qcad
Step 1.2 for the pro version looks a little different, as "-demo"is replaced by -"prof".
If you are familiar with Linux, please forgive me for writing this in such detail: my hope is that some CAD users will switch to Linux because of this fine, relatively inexpensive CAD program!
Disclosure - I have no pecuniary interest in this enterprise.
OldAl.