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#1 Post by bambuko »

I hope that I am starting this topic in correct section :oops:

One of the reasons I still run both Puppy and XP is professional CAD that I need.

It would seem that I have found something that I can try:
http://www.cad-schroer.com/index.php?sc ... A&land=com
Apart from being a decent CAD system, it offers free personal license (renewable every 6 month)

It is supposedly good for CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE and Ubuntu, so I have decided to try in Puppy 4.0 (full install on my desktop)

And now to the reason for this post:
Downloaded .sh file
Started installation and got the error message:

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medusa4_v3_0_1_linux_personal.sh: line 38: csh: command not found
Searched Medusa support forum and found the following advice (to somebody else with identical problem):
...you need to install the "C shell", or "csh". The Medusa installation and other scripts wrongly invoke the Bourne shell ("sh"), which has a different syntax...
but than it follows with something about finding rpm in Fedora... :cry:

Can you please help in translating this into "Puppy talk"

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#2 Post by muggins »

Mu has csh available here. Just extract & copy bsd-csh to /usr/bin. I think it would need renaming, from /usr/bin/bsd-csh to /usr/bin/csh, as well.

But if you see this thread, installing Medusa on puppy doesn't sound promising.
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#3 Post by muggins »

Would Brl-CAD meet your specs?
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Varkon?
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http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html
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http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html
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#7 Post by bambuko »

muggins wrote:...But if you see this thread, installing Medusa on puppy doesn't sound promising.
thanks muggins,
that doesn't sound very promising indeed :cry:
(btw I wish people used more descriptive titles to their postings ... "I'm trying to install a big program " doesn't help much :wink: )

I will still try though before I give up

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#8 Post by muggins »

Chris,

I don't know what your requirements are, but if you search sourceforge.net for cad, there are a few opensource java-based cad programs.
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#9 Post by bambuko »

muggins wrote:Would Brl-CAD meet your specs?
Have come across this one before.
First impressions - very good when it comes to modeling, but lacks in the drafting department (3d models are of little use, unless I can produce drawings from them)

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#10 Post by bambuko »

trapster wrote:Varkon?
interesting, but not up to replacing Pro-E or AutoCad etc :wink:
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#11 Post by bambuko »

yeap :)
that was the starting point of my search

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#12 Post by bambuko »

muggins wrote:Chris,

I don't know what your requirements are, but if you search sourceforge.net for cad, there are a few opensource java-based cad programs.
the only two that appear to come close to my requirements were:
http://www.varicad.com/en/home/
and
http://www.cad-schroer.com/index.php?sc ... A&land=com

the rest of it is either beyond my means or too basic...
and of course the main requirement is that it would have to "just work" :P
I don't want to "tinker" with them I just want to use them :wink:

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#13 Post by bambuko »

your advice about csh (including renaming) worked OK :!:
but now it complains about missing library:

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med/run/csginst: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
this is probably not unusual - installation manual lists various libraries needed for all the distros for the installation to succeed, so I would be surprised if Puppy was different, it's just that the manual hasn't got ready answers for Puppy.

Hope you can help me with this one as well :oops:
in the meantime searching:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 69519147c3
let's hope I can make sense of it :roll:
ps later edit:
I have only found LibGL.so1 and LibGL.so.1.2. in /usr/X11R7/lib :?:

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#14 Post by muggins »

That's from openGL. You could try installing the pup3 openGL .pet from here
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#15 Post by bambuko »

no sooner said than done :)
however... the message from package manager says:
these dependencies are missing:
File /usr/X11R7/lib/libglut.so.3.7.1 has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
The Petget package manager does not know what package has these libraries
so it would appear that search for libGLU.so.1 continues... :cry:

btw since it didn't work, I suppose I might as well remove openGL ?

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#16 Post by muggins »

OK, I just downloaded the same package, and Barry has a message in it:
I moved libGLU.so* to the xorg_BASIC
But I've no idea whether it's in this one, or this.
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#17 Post by bambuko »

downloaded both and tried installing
PETget shows message:
processing, please wait
and afterwards nothing...
I don't know if I should be more patient? but normally it doesn't take long, so I am inclined to think there is some problem with these PETs?
I will now try one and walk away :) and see what happens

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#18 Post by muggins »

Try converting the .pet to .tgz, by renaming, extract to a temporary location then, if it contains libGLU.so, copy to proper location. The library is also available on http://puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/.

Just download libGLU.so.1.3.070001 to /usr/X11R7/lib, and then symlink it to libGLU.so.1.
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#19 Post by bambuko »

muggins wrote:...The library is also available on http://puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/.
thanks, that might be useful in future
muggins wrote:...Just download to /usr/X11R7/lib, and then symlink it to libGLU.so.1.
downloading done
when it comes to symlink I am on a slightly more dodgy ground :oops: (still a desperate newb)
did a bit of search and it would appear that I am supposed to :?: :

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ln -s libGLU.so.1 /usr/X11R7/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.070001
I would appreciate your help to make sure I don't muck it up :(

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#20 Post by muggins »

It would be:

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ln -s /usr/X11R7/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.070001 /usr/X11R7/lib/libGLU.so.1
But you can also achieve the same result by right-clicking libGLU.so.1.3.070001 & selecting Link, then entering /usr/X11R7/lib/libGLU.so.1.
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