BricsCAD

[A.S. Pushkin]

I have some interest in BricsCAD. I note support for Fedora, OpenSuSE and Ubuntu.
I understand why Gentoo is not supported, but I wonder if it might be possible.
My laptop is a Dell d620 so I may install Fedora or OpenSuSE as it's rather gutless to run
virtualbox as compared to my desktop with an i7 and muc ram.

Being not a programmer I'm not sure how I might compare OpenSuSE to Gentoo, that is to see
what my Gentoo box lacks as compared to OpenSuSE.

Is this a rather fruitless waste of time to do?

I may need to run Rhino on the laptop, as well, which is not available for Linux. That's for a
boat design course I want to take this summer.

Any suggestions from you would be appreciated.
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[fedeliallalinea]

I think is possible to run this program on Gentoo.
In download page of BricsCAD I see that in addition to Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse exists also a 'Custom Installation' (I think there is a self extracting binary '.bin').
The second step is to check if all dependency are included in .bin or otherwise available in portage tree.
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[A.S. Pushkin]

fedeliallalinea thanks for the reply. I may have missed that point you make.

I'll work on that and post if I am able to get it working.

Thanks again!
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ASPushkin

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[A.S. Pushkin]

For now I've found another solution for me. Other may find a more direct means.

Since BricsCAD is directly available for Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE I decided
to attempt installing it into Virtualbox. Success!!

I may attempt a direct install in Gentoo, but running rpm there were some dependency issues
for Gentoo. I have an Epson Perfection V550 Scanner and there are rpms available. This has
been another issue. This seems to function as well in Virtualbox.

Often Gentoo is a bit painful as now (qt issues and now perl issues), but I want to continue
with Gentoo so using another where RPMs are available seems a good avenue.

CPU and RAM makes it possible.

Thanks

EDIT:

I ran rpm against the latest version of BricsCAD, BricsCAD-V17.1.22-1-en_US.x86_64.rpm

Here is the output:

[code]
error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libstdc++.so.6()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libexpat.so.1()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libfontconfig.so.1()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libICE.so.6()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libcups.so.2()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libuuid.so.1()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libSM.so.6()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libGLU.so.1()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libclearlooks.so()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libgthread-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libpng12.so.0()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libpth.so.20()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libcurl.so.4()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
libfreetype.so.6()(64bit) is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
/bin/sh is needed by bricscadv17-17.1.22-1.x86_64
[code]

I'm missing libstdc++.so.6 (have the wrong version), libclearlooks.so(missing), libpng12.so.0(missing),
libpth.so.20 (missing).

I suppose the next step is to determine if there is a package I can install that will fix this issue.

Thanks
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ASPushkin

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell