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Installation (compilation) of FreeCAD 016 on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1

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Update on the series, now FreeCAD 016 is out, time to compile it on OpenSuse Leap 42.1. Few change, I had to add a repository to have a minimum version 1.55 for boost-devel. The dependencies needed are here.

So let’s go again, to the command line, this is what I did :

Let’s add sources for dependencies :

‘Trust’ sources when asked for

cd
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ PythonDev
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ Games
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ KDE:Extra
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/libraries:/c_c++/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ C++_Libraries

Refresh repositories

sudo zypper refresh

And launch installation of dependencies

Accept installation of packages when asked to

sudo zypper install  gcc cmake OpenCASCADE-devel libXerces-c-devel python-devel libqt4-devel libshiboken-devel python-pyside-devel python-pyside-tools Coin-devel SoQt-devel boost-devel libode-devel  libQtWebKit-devel libeigen3-devel gcc-fortran freetype2 freetype2-devel

Hopefully it also works fine for you, and now let’s fetch the source code file (archive ) here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/files/FreeCAD%20Source/FreeCAD-0.16.6703.tar.gz/download

Extract its content and enter its directory:

tar -zxvf freeCAD..... (name of file)
cd freeCAD..... (name of directory where it has been extracted to)

And launch compilation (This took some time even on a good NB with SSD, 20GB RAM and a Quad Core CPU, it only uses 1 core, no more than 4GB RAM and little HDD writes. You can follow the progress in %

cmake .
make

And now you can launch FreeCAD (if all went fine)

 

./bin/FreeCAD

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Have Fun and check out the Website http://www.freecadweb.org/

 


					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
Installation (compilation) of FreeCAD 015 on OpenSUSE 13.2

			
						

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This is an update of my article about installing version 014 on OpenSUSE 13.2 – Now it’s 015’s turn to be compiled on OpenSuse 13.2 – There are some minor changes compared to previous versions.


As said in last post, FreeCAD is a very good Open Source 3D CAD program, I use it sometimes to make 3D objects I print, and sometimes post on Thingiverse, and as far as I could see, the package ready for OpenSUSE has some issues, so I decided to compile myself, based on information I found here and there (i.e. http://www.freecadweb.org /wiki/index.php?title=CompileOnUnix) and by trying out, looking at results and error messages. It may not be complete or perfect, but that worked for me on a fresh OpenSUSE 13.2 install


 


So let’s go again, to the command line, this is what I did :


Let’s add sources for dependencies (that is quick) :




‘Trust’ sources when asked for




cd
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_13.2/ PythonDev
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_13.2/ Games
sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_13.2/ KDE:Extra


Refresh repositories  (that takes a bit longer)


sudo zypper refresh


And launch installation of dependencies (that is longer)


Accept installation of packages when asked to


sudo zypper install gcc cmake OpenCASCADE-devel libXerces-c-devel python-devel libqt4-devel python-qt4 Coin-devel SoQt-devel boost-devel libode-devel libQtWebKit-devel libeigen3-devel gcc-fortran freetype 2 freetype2-devel libshiboken-devel python-pyside-devel libspnav-devel swig python-pyside-tools doxygen python-matplotlib


Hopefully it also works fine for you, and now let’s fetch the source code file (archive ) here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/free-cad/FreeCAD%20Source/freecad_0.15.4671.tar.gz


Extract its content and enter its directory:




tar -zxvf freeCAD..... (name of file)
cd freeCAD..... (name of directory where it has been extracted to)


And launch compilation (This took some time even on a good NB, but you can follow the progress in %)


cmake .
make


And now you can launch FreeCAD (if all went fine)


 


./bin/FreeCAD
snapshot1





 


And check out the Website http://www.freecadweb.org/


 



					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
Packard Bell oneTwo AiO M3870 disassembly

			
						

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This is a quick visual guide on how to open this all in on computer. I spent some time fiddling aroud to find the scres and clips. I hope this will help those who want to give a new life to this computer by adding (changin) RAP or replacing the slow 5400 RPM Hard Drive by a faster SSD on SSHD


So here is what the model looks like


Front

Front


Back (sorry for the fuzzy image)


There are 9 screws to remove to open it, 2 are visible, the next 3 under the cache situated under the stand

Back


One the cache removed you can access the 3 next screws and remove the stand

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You now need to remove the cache on the DVD drive by simply but gently pulling it, you can then access the next 2 screws

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Al last, remove the rubber parts at the bottom of the screen, and you can access the last 2 screws to open it

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Here is a visual so as you can see where the clips are, this was not simple to find but you must unclip it with, ie a screw driver or so


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Inside of it you can access the hard drive directly by removing 1 screw, or the memory by removing several more screws (not all shown by arrow) and take off the main plate

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This is not very precise but I hope it can help; as I didn’t find any instruction or manual on the web I wanted to share at least some info.