FreeCAD won't install

Giorgio · February 21, 2022, 8:28am

It seems an OMLx (ad at least openSuse) problem.
FreeCAD_OMLx

Not present in FreeCAD 0.19 in Appimage in LinuxMint.
FreeCAD19_Appimage

Giorgio · February 21, 2022, 8:30am

As you can read it’s the version I installed and error message still appears.

Giorgio · February 21, 2022, 8:45am

mandian:

A workaround has been found here : the fist time run FreeCAD ad administrator with
sudo FreeCAD
and press F1 to oopen Help: it should be showed. Then close FreeCAD and run it with your normal user.

I get this error message:

Unable to launch Qt Assistant (/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/assistant)

In fact this file “/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/assistant” doesn’t exist in my system.

mandian · February 21, 2022, 6:10pm

my mistake, i meant freecad-0.19.4-0.20220205.6. You may install it from testing repository.

mandian · February 21, 2022, 6:19pm

freecad_zoom
Here is mine … maybe it’s the icon theme.

Giorgio · February 21, 2022, 7:13pm

All icons looks different and I didn’t change anything after OpenMandriva installation.
Which style are you using?

mandian · February 21, 2022, 9:26pm

That snapshot is from mate desktop with blueMenta theme, not from standard plasma. I posted it to suggest to you to try to change theme or icons in your desktop environment.

Giorgio · February 24, 2022, 8:42pm

I’m not able to find blueMentha theme.
Installed release 6 and no more error message at start.

Giorgio · February 25, 2022, 1:19pm

Opened a bug FreeCAD GUI icon missing · Issue #2780 · OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution · GitHub

mandian · February 25, 2022, 11:37pm

If fact it is a Mate theme but you may just install mate-icon-theme or adwaita-icon-theme or any other icon theme you can find in the repository and they to change the default of plasma. IMO it is not a OMLx specific bug but an upstream bug so you may open a bug report at KDE people or FreeCAD developers.

Giorgio · February 26, 2022, 10:39am

Opened bug in KDE 450870 – FreeCAD GUI icon missing
I don’t find any bug tracer in FreeCAD

mandian · February 27, 2022, 10:29pm

I think they are using github issues trcker

I link below the lines of ode where freecad calls the missing (for you) icons:

github.com

FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/52a0a9ba40ffa8cb8cc864d51e19b89a27252206/src/Gui/CommandView.cpp#L1479


      
          DEF_STD_CMD_A(StdCmdViewFitAll)

          

          StdCmdViewFitAll::StdCmdViewFitAll()

            : Command("Std_ViewFitAll")

          {

              sGroup        = "Standard-View";

              sMenuText     = QT_TR_NOOP("Fit all");

              sToolTipText  = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the whole content on the screen");

              sWhatsThis    = "Std_ViewFitAll";

              sStatusTip    = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the whole content on the screen");

              sPixmap       = "zoom-all";

              sAccel        = "V, F";

              eType         = Alter3DView;

          }

          

          void StdCmdViewFitAll::activated(int iMsg)

          {

              Q_UNUSED(iMsg);

              //doCommand(Command::Gui,"Gui.activeDocument().activeView().fitAll()");

              doCommand(Command::Gui,"Gui.SendMsgToActiveView(\"ViewFit\")");

          }

github.com

FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/52a0a9ba40ffa8cb8cc864d51e19b89a27252206/src/Gui/CommandView.cpp#L1511


      
          

          StdCmdViewFitSelection::StdCmdViewFitSelection()

            : Command("Std_ViewFitSelection")

          {

              sGroup        = "Standard-View";

              sMenuText     = QT_TR_NOOP("Fit selection");

              sToolTipText  = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the selected content on the screen");

              sWhatsThis    = "Std_ViewFitSelection";

              sStatusTip    = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the selected content on the screen");

              sAccel        = "V, S";

              sPixmap       = "zoom-selection";

              eType         = Alter3DView;

          }

          

          void StdCmdViewFitSelection::activated(int iMsg)

          {

              Q_UNUSED(iMsg);

              //doCommand(Command::Gui,"Gui.activeDocument().activeView().fitAll()");

              doCommand(Command::Gui,"Gui.SendMsgToActiveView(\"ViewSelection\")");

          }

Giorgio · March 21, 2022, 11:00am

I’ve got an aswer in KDE bug tracer.
And I used your very good and useful work to answer

I opened a bug in FreeCAD too zoom icons wrong in KDE · Issue #6633 · FreeCAD/FreeCAD · GitHub

Giorgio · March 22, 2022, 7:10am

Your work helped in finding a quick solution, see 450870 – Zoom icons in FreeCAD toolbar fall back to `zoom` due to lack of more specific icons

mandian · March 24, 2022, 9:45pm

Great! So next version on breeze icons will fixes it … meanwhile you may apply the “patch” manually using the following code:

for t in breeze breeze-dark
do
	for s in 16 22 32
	do
		sudo ln -s zoom-original.svg /usr/share/icons/$t/actions/$s/zoom-all.svg 
		sudo ln -s zoom-fit-best.svg /usr/share/icons/$t/actions/$s/zoom-selection.svg
	done
done

Maybe you also need to clean old FreeCAD config (not sure):

mv ~/.FreeCAD  ~/.FreeCAD.bkp

Giorgio · April 7, 2022, 7:32pm

Tried both actions but icons still unavailable.
Not a big problem, I can wait next Breeze.

mandian · April 7, 2022, 7:44pm

I discover there are some other dirs FreeCAD uses and I don’t know enough to say what is were. So you may remove them at once then retry.

mv ~/.config/FreeCAD ~/.config/FreeCAD,bkp
mv ~/.cache/FreeCAD ~/.cache/FreeCAD.bkp
mv ~/.local/share/FreeCAD ~/.local/share/FreeCAD.bkp

Giorgio · April 8, 2022, 7:47am

Done, no zoom icons.
I wait for new Breeze.

rugyada · April 8, 2022, 10:31am

The topic title is “FreeCAD won’t install”
Did FreeCAD install finally?
What was the proper fix?
So we can tag the topic solved if so.

Icons wrong or right and whatever other issue not related to FreeCAD installation is matter of a new topic.

mandian · April 8, 2022, 3:22pm

We had to rebuilt freecad and some its dependences and I think it installs and works well now, even here there is another issue I can’t reproduce.