What installer for Bricscad should I download?

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Hi all,

I have a license for Bricscad by Bricsys. I’ve installed it in the past on Linux Mint and it ran fine. I’m new to Manjaro and recently installed the OS on my new system. On the Bricscad site they offer installers based on Fedora, Ubuntu and an option labeled “Custom install”.

Am I correct in assuming that the Fedora or Ubuntu installers will not work and I should try and work with the “custom install”?

Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks much!

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Better still: it’s available from the AUR, and from a cursory look at it, it’ll be a precompiled version. :backhand_index_pointing_down:

pamac build bricscad
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Continuing the discussion from What installer for Bricscad should I download?:

Thanks for the reply Aragom!

Unfortunately the “pamac” command you suggested installs the current version of Bricscad, v26. I don’t have a license for that. I have a perpetual license for v21 which is still available on the Bricsys site for download.

I found info here on how to work with the Bricscad installation:

I had to make some tweaks but I got it to install successfully. However, now I’m getting a new error when I try to run the application:

symbol lookup error: /opt/bricsys/bricscad/v21/libtinysparql-3.0.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_result_blob64

That library does exist in both /usr/lib and /opt/bricsys/bricscad/v21. I’m not sure what to do at this point. I’ll post my issue on the Bricscad support page.

Thanks again!

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Well, I cannot help you with proprietary software, other than that you may want to check in the pamac GUI for whether your particular bricscad version is available as either a Snap or a FlatPak. Those are standalone and containerized applications, which come with all of their required dependencies included in the container.

Apart from that, there are several Free & Open Source alternatives in the Manjaro repository…:

  • freecad (2D/3D)
  • openscad(2D/3D)
  • qcad (2D only)
  • librecad (2D only)
  • kicad (electronics design)

You may want to check out some of those, and maybe you’ll find that they meet your needs, without having to stick to a proprietary and version-limited software title. :wink:

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For these kind of complex problems I can only ask you to try ChatGPT. The AI is pretty damn smart when it comes to all things Linux.

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Not quite. We’ve seen more than one member break their system by following the advice of an A.I., which is one of the reasons why we do not allow any A.I.-generated posts on the forum.

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