I followed what John did, except I did not uninstall freecad-python2 and did not install freecad-python3. Running update-alternatives was enough to resolved the issue. If the new package was supposed to do that, I don't think it worked, at least upgrading from -4.
rleblanc@riker:~/code$ dpkg -l "*freecad*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=======================-=================-============-=========================================================== ii freecad 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-5 all Extensible Open Source CAx program ii freecad-common 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 all Extensible Open Source CAx program - common files un freecad-doc <none> <none> (no description available) ii freecad-python2 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 amd64 Extensible Open Source CAx program - Python 2 binaries un freecad-python3 <none> <none> (no description available) ii freecad-runtime 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 all Extensible Open Source CAx program - runtime files ii libfreecad-python2-0.18 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 amd64 Extensible Open Source CAx program - Python 2 library files rleblanc@riker:~/code$ sudo update-alternatives --config freecad There is only one alternative in link group freecad (providing /usr/bin/freecad): /usr/lib/freecad/bin/freecad-python2 Nothing to configure. update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/freecad/bin/freecad-python2 because link group freecad is broken rleblanc@riker:~/code$ freecad FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R © Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2019 ##### #### ### #### # # # # # # # ## #### #### # # # # # #### # # # # # # # ##### # # # # #### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ## ## # # #### #### ### # # #### ## ## ## (2, 'No such file or directory', '/usr/share/freecad/examples') ---------------- Robert LeBlanc PGP Fingerprint 79A2 9CA4 6CC4 45DD A904 C70E E654 3BB2 FA62 B9F1
