Staudey Note that FreeCAD is probably not the easiest thing to package. People have tried in the past. https://dev.getsol.us/T208
Saijin_Naib Staudey Sounds about right for me that I'd pick something difficult with absolutely no skill in this whatsoever 🙄 Looking at that issue, yep, I failed to get/compile/package all the sub-dependencies, so I'm in good company, at least.
downhill Saijin_Naib If you really need/want FreeCAD, run another distro that has it available in its repos. Debian has it in all of its repos; Stretch, Buster, Testing, and Unstable. If you don't want to multi-boot, you could always run a VM using VirtualBox. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=FreeCAD&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
Saijin_Naib downhill Unfortunately, I'm moving away from Debian because Solus has the GIS programs I want access to way more up to date 🤣 There's no distro perfect for me, it seems.
WhiteWolf downhill FreeCAD should be in Solus repos, it's really essential for many students and if Solus want to go a mainstream desktop system it needs to have support.
downhill Saijin_Naib Debian Unstable repos currently have v0.0.19 of the GIS packages. Of course, you'd have to know how to install Debian Unstable and then know how to update it appropriately or you risk hosing your system. Debian Unstable is not as user-friendly as Solus when updating.
kyrios If I recall correctly, FreeCAD depends on PySide2 (Qt for Python) which is not in the repository yet. So first thing is to find someone who can build & maintain shiboken2/pyside2.
palto42 kyrios I had a look at the PySide2 source and can't find archives to download, only git clone seems possible. Is it possible to use the Solus packaging with git clone instead of archive packages as source?
Saijin_Naib downhill fair points, but even unstable is pushing QGIS LTR, for instance. Insufficient for my uses. Solus wins handily, here. FreeCAD is a nice to have for me, QGIS is life.
DataDrake palto42 It's an official Qt project now: https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/pyside2/
palto42 DataDrake Thanks! Found that there is already an open task T8260 for building PySide2 and that it seems a bit difficult. I think it doesn't make sense to retry T208 before we get PySide2 solved.
