Problems installing 3,0 on Ubuntu 12.04

[RayArdia]

Re original post by RayArdia on Ubuntu 12.04 Woes » Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:59 pm
Having had all sorts of problems withQCAD 2.2 Prof when used with Ubuntu 12.04 so decided to download ver 3.0.
Can't get it to install or run so tried to follow advice given variously in this foru, especially by hungerberg et al.
The 'equivs-build --arch i386 qcad3-deps.txt' bit seemed to go OK but when I tried 'sudo dpkg -i qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb' I got this:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$ sudo dpkg -i qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb

Then tried to use the .rar file suggested in hungerberg's post results below:-

ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ sudo dpkg -i qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package qcad3-deps.
(Reading database ... 322096 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking qcad3-deps (from qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb) ...
Setting up qcad3-deps (1.0) ...
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$

ls shows:-

ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ ls
assistant libQtDesigner.so.4 libQtXmlPatterns.so.4
doc libQtGui.so.4 libQtXml.so.4
dwg2bmp libQtHelp.so.4 libraries
dwg2pdf libQtMultimedia.so.4 patterns
dwg2svg libQtNetwork.so.4 plugins
examples libQtOpenGL.so.4 qcad
fonts libQtScript.so.4 qcad3-deps_1.0_i386.deb
libQtCLucene.so.4 libQtScriptTools.so.4 qcad-bin
libQtCore.so.4 libQtSql.so.4 qcad_icon.png
libQtDBus.so.4 libQtSvg.so.4 readme.txt
libQtDeclarative.so.4 libQtTest.so.4 scripts
libQtDesignerComponents.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4 ts
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$

I'm now lost, where do I go from here to run and use QCAD 3? Would be most grateful for any help, I want to stick with QCAD, having tried Librecad which I don't find as good as QCAD (when it's going well!).


RayArdia

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[andrew]

What is the output of simply trying to run QCAD as follows?

cd ~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
./qcad

If you are running a 64bit flavor of Ubuntu, did you install ia32-libs? If not, try:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

On a standard installation of Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, you shouldn't have to do more than that to run QCAD 3.
On a standard installation of Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, QCAD 3 should run out of the box.

[RayArdia]

Thankyou Andrew,
Have now been able to move forward!
Output from Terminal was:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ ./qcad
Debug: TIMER: 544 ms - "loading plugins"
Debug: TIMER: 2641 ms - "initializing plugins"
Must admit I had to be away from my laptop for quite a while so don't really know what went on, but the result was that QCAD 3.0 appears to have opened OK. Will investgate.
Do I need to open it from Terminal each time with your 'magic'(to me!) command, or is there an easier way?
Very grateful for your help - as I usually am!
Ray

[RayArdia]

Still having problems.QCAD won't open from Dash.
From Terminal:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ ./qcad
Debug: TIMER: 156 ms - "loading plugins"
Warning: WidgetFactory: File scripts/Widgets/ClipboardDisplay/ClipboardDisplay.ui does not exist
Warning: RScriptHandlerEcma::eval: script engine exception: "TypeError: Result of expression 'clipboardWidget' [undefined] is not an object."
Warning: "<anonymous>()@/home/ray/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets/ClipboardDisplay/ClipboardDisplay.js:66"
Warning: At least one uncaught exception:
Warning: "<anonymous>()@/home/ray/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets/ClipboardDisplay/ClipboardDisplay.js:66"
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$

How do I get it to run please?
Ray

[andrew]

Ray: Please check if the file "/home/ray/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets/ClipboardDisplay/ClipboardDisplay.ui" exists and is readable by user 'ray'.
If that is not the case, make sure that the tar.gz file was extracted properly. This might not be the case if your partition is full or the download was not complete or a similar problem occurred.

[RayArdia]

I don't think the file you mentioned does exist, terminal output was:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$ cd QCAD
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD$ cd 3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
bash: cd: 3.0.0-prof-linux-x86: No such file or directory
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD$ ls
bin Front Door Panels.dxf partlibrary-2.1.2.8-1 scripts
doc Front Door Panels.dxf~ patterns templates
doors library qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86 Whole House.dxf
examples misc qm
fonts New Kitchen Area.dxf Rabbit Hutch (rev).dxf
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD$ cd qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ ls
assistant libQtDesigner.so.4 libQtXmlPatterns.so.4
doc libQtGui.so.4 libQtXml.so.4
dwg2bmp libQtHelp.so.4 libraries
dwg2pdf libQtMultimedia.so.4 patterns
dwg2svg libQtNetwork.so.4 plugins
examples libQtOpenGL.so.4 qcad
fonts libQtScript.so.4 qcad-bin
libQtCLucene.so.4 libQtScriptTools.so.4 qcad_icon.png
libQtCore.so.4 libQtSql.so.4 readme.txt
libQtDBus.so.4 libQtSvg.so.4 scripts
libQtDeclarative.so.4 libQtTest.so.4 ts
libQtDesignerComponents.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ cd scripts
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts$ ls
autostart.js Edit mimetype.png splashscreen_cam.png
Block Empty.svg Modify splashscreen.png
CrosshairCursorMask.png Examples Navigation sprintf.js
CrosshairCursor.png File Plugin.js styles.css
date.js Help qcad_icon.svg Tools
DbConnection.js ImportExport Reset translations.pri
DefaultAction.js Information scripts.pro View
diff.js Layer Select WidgetFactory.js
Draw library.js ShapeAlgorithms.js Widgets
EAction.js map.js Snap Window
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts$ cd Widgets
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets$ ls
AutoZoomView Dialog.ui LibraryBrowser SelectionDisplay Widgets.js
BlockList DirectoryList MouseDisplay StatusBar Widgets.pro
CadToolBar FirstStart OptionsToolBar TabBar
ClipboardDisplay GraphicsView PenToolBar TrialTeaser
CommandLine HelpViewer ProgressBar ViewList
CoordinateDisplay LayerList PropertyEditor Viewport
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets$ cd ClipboardDisplay
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets/ClipboardDisplay$ ls
ClipboardDisplay.js ClipboardDisplay.pro ClipboardDisplay.svg
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86/scripts/Widgets/ClipboardDisplay$

I'm not sure how to " make sure that the tar.gz file was extracted properly" which you suggested, can you clarify please?
Ray

[andrew]

Please delete your installation and install again:

First, download the package qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86.tar.gz into ~/QCAD

Then:

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cd QCAD
rm -rf qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
tar xfvz qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86.tar.gz

[RayArdia]

So sorry to be dumb but what steps do I follow to " First, download the package qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86.tar.gz into ~/QCAD" ?

[andrew]

Download instructions are available on our web site at:
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/en/customer-area

[RayArdia]

Tar.bz downloaded and saved.
Terminal output:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$ cd QCAD
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD$ rm -rf qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD$ tar xfvz qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD$

[andrew]

Your downloaded file seems to be incomplete. Please download the file again and pay attention to the following common issues when downloading files from the Internet:

- You might want to clear the browser cache first to make sure it does not give you the same, incomplete file again and again. Alternatively, you may want to use another browser.
- Please wait while the download is in progress until it is complete. Incompletely downloaded files will not install or run.
- Do not quit the browser while downloading.

[RayArdia]

Did as you suggested, cleared the Firefox cache and loaded the commands in your post. Lots of output (too much to quote here I think) but end result APPEARS to be that QCAD 3.0 is installed. Now all I have to do is get it to start!
Do I always need to start from Terminal - if so what command please? If I want to start from Dash how can I make that happen?
I really am sorry to keep on having to ask stupid questions, but I've tried to learn how to use the command line but have failed to get much further than cd, ls and apt-get! Where can I find an idiot's guide to using the command line?
With continued thanks for your help,
Ray

[andrew]

Please start QCAD as indicated above:

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cd ~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
./qcad

This is the recommended way to start QCAD. There are of course alternative ways, but let's start with this, to eliminate other sources of potential errors.

[RayArdia]

thanks Andrew, that works fine - just a tiny bit long-winded!
How do I get it to open from Launcher?
Ray

[RayArdia]

Just noticed when I went back to Terminal that some extra text appeared below the previous commands:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$ cd ~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~/QCAD/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86$ ./qcad
Debug: TIMER: 353 ms - "loading plugins"
Debug: TIMER: 2491 ms - "initializing plugins"
Debug: RDwgImporter::importFile: force version to 2010
Warning: RAction::terminate: view is not a QObject
Warning: RAction::terminate: view is not a QObject
Debug: autosave skipped [21:47:22]: no modifications

What's all that about?
Ray