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I was successfully, happily running LibreCAD
(librecad-2.0.0alpha4-2.1.x86_64) when I encountered the problem of
not being able to scale a drawing prior to printing it. After checking the website (http://librecad.org/cms/home.html) and the wiki (http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Main_Page) and Source Forge, I came to the conclusion that this issue had been addressed in the current release, but that no public release had been made since 2.0.0alpha, even though there are some indications that a beta was released. So... in an effort to resolve my issue, I was forced to build librecad from source. As there are no public instructions on doing this, especially on Fedora, I thought I'd share mine. I use KDE exclusively on this uname -a Linux XPS.localdomain 3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 13:26:04 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The first thing I did was remove my existing libreCAD installation, which was via a downloaded RPM. 'yum remove librecad' The next thing I did was download the master source via a ZIP file from here. https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD Uncompress it and cd into its root directory. The instructions on the github page say to build librecad with My build process stopped with an error stating that libreCADicon.png could not be found. I cured this problem by cding to LibreCAD-master/librecad/support/doc/img/ and 'cp librecadlogo.png libreCADicon.png' That obviously doesn't install the icon that the developers were expecting, but it works well enough to get the build complete. At this point the make process should complete without errors. If it doesn't, check the github page for dependency issues by consulting the dependency list for the Ubuntu installation. I previously build librecad on my computer, so I may have addressed the dependencies prior to this build. Once the build completes, cd into the unix directory and ./librecad to run it. FWIW, I think librecad is a very good 2D drafting application. I am very happy to see developers spearhead further development on it. I hope this helps someone. Linuxguy. |
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