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/