Bangalore, India
Installing Bricscad on the Linux operating system can be a daunting task, especially if you are new to Linux and do not have access to good technical support.
First, some background. Bricscad was released on Linux in August 2010. The Bricsys website mentions Ubuntu, Fedora and Open Suse as supported flavours of Linux.
We decided to test things first-hand and installed Bricscad on two of the popular flavours - Ubuntu and Fedora. Our experience shows that Ubuntu is a clear winner. It was much more easier to install Bricscad on Ubuntu than on Fedora. In fact, much of internal development and testing within Bricsys happens on Ubuntu than on any other flavour of Linux.
With Ubuntu, the process was extremely smooth and straight-forward, like a Windows application. With Fedora, we did finally manage to install Bricscad but only after we installed a bunch of packages that were reported missing during the Bricscad run. We have put together a few instructions for installing on Linux in general and Fedora in particular.
Briscad Installation on Linux Operating System
Pre-requirements ->
- Operating system Linux (Fedora 12 and above / Ubuntu 10.10 and above)
- Operating system must have the latest updates before installing Bricscad
- Download Bricscad from the following URL: (http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL)
- Select;
DEB files to be used for Ubuntu
RPM files to be used for Fedora
Briscad Installation on Fedora
- Open a Terminal console
- Login as root using the command su – press ENTER key
- You will be prompted to enter the root password, specify the correct password
- Test to check if the operating system is up to date with latest updates by using the command yum update
- Change to the installation file downloaded location (by default the location is /home/ useraccount/ Downloads) using command cd /home/useraccount/downloads
- Yum install --nogpgcheck BricscadClassic-V10.6.6-1-en_US.rpm
- After typing the above command linux checks for required dependencies and will prompt you to download and install the required files.
- If all required dependencies are updated Bricscad will be installed successfully and will display a message stating successfully installed Bricscad
- Now you can run Bricscad from command line by typing bricscad or bricscadv10
Post Installation errors:
When we intalled Bricscad, it went through the installation but when we tried to run it, we got the following errors and the solution to fix the same is shown alongside as well:
opt/bricsys/bricscad/v10/bricscad: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SOLUTION: yum install qt-x11.i686/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v10/bricscad: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SOLUTION: yum install gtk2.i686/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v10/bricscad: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SOLUTION: yum install freetype.i686- /opt/bricsys/bricscad/v10/bricscad: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SOLUTION: yum install cups.i686
After resolving the above errors, Bricscad ran perfectly in Fedora. The key issue here is about determining which update to install for the error message you get. For the error messages we got, we needed to google a bit and figure out which packages were required. In your case, you may get a slightly different or no error messages depending on which Fedora version / source you are using, and what updates are already installed or not installed.
Either ways, tell us about your experiences using Fedora or Ubuntu with Bricscad, so that we can share it with our readers.
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