Starting QCAD 3.x in Ubuntu 13.04 [solved]

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vkadal
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Starting QCAD 3.x in Ubuntu 13.04 [solved]

Post by vkadal » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:50 am

In previous versions of Ubuntu, I could run Qcad by double clicking the qcad script file. Now it is not working. I need guidance in starting Qcad

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Re: Starting QCAD 3.x in Ubuntu 13.04

Post by andrew » Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:05 am

The most common problem under Linux is that users install the wrong package on their system.

Please make sure that the architecture of your operating system matches the downloaded package:
- For a 32bit Linux distribution, install the 32bit QCAD package.
- For a 64bit Linux distribution, install the 64bit QCAD package.

To find out what system you have installed, please run the following command in a terminal:
uname -m
If the output is 'x86_64', you are running a 64bit Linux system, otherwise you are running a 32bit Linux system.

Note that the architecture of the underlying CPU is irrelevant - it's the operating system that makes the difference.

If this does not solve your problem, please try to launch QCAD from a terminal and post the output / error message here, thanks.

To launch QCAD from a terminal, please enter the following commands in a terminal (the name of the directory might be slightly different, depending on your version of QCAD):
cd ~/opt/qcad-3.3.0-linux-x86_32
./qcad

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Re: Starting QCAD 3.x in Ubuntu 13.04

Post by vkadal » Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:41 pm

kadal@Annai:~$ cd Desktop
kadal@Annai:~/Desktop$ cd qcad-3
kadal@Annai:~/Desktop/qcad-3$ ./qcad
./qcad: line 35: ./qcad-bin: Permission denied
kadal@Annai:~/Desktop/qcad-3$ sudo ./qcad
[sudo] password for kadal:
./qcad: line 35: ./qcad-bin: Permission denied

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Re: Starting QCAD 3.x in Ubuntu 13.04

Post by andrew » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:41 pm

There might have been a problem when extracting the file since qcad-bin should be executable after extracting.

Try:
cd ~/Desktop/qcad-3
chmod a+x ./qcad-bin
./qcad

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Re: Starting QCAD 3.x in Ubuntu 13.04

Post by vkadal » Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:07 am

Thank you very much. The issue has been resolved

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