So I wanted to use FreeCAD. Debian Testing has no FreeCAD package, so I downloaded the AppImage from their Git page. It starts up and runs OK, but to import Collada meshes it requires PyCollada.
So Debian also doesn't have PyCollada. It has "python-collada" but this doesn't satisfy the FreeCAD requirement. I'm no expert, but I'm assumed that it is a different way for Python to handle Collada meshes. So I used pip to install PyCollada. FreeCAD still says, "PyCollada not found, Collada support is disabled." I tried switching between Python 2 and Python 3. No difference. Is FreeCAD incorporating its own Python executable and libraries in the AppImage? If so, there's no way for me to add the PyCollada library, right? Or maybe just the wrong pythonpath so it doesn't find the library? OK, being a resourceful guy I set up apt pinning (hadn't bothered on this system) and installed the FreeCAD package from Unstable on my Testing system. As you'd expect it installed dozens of Python packages. (FreeCAD is a Python program and scripted in Python.) Only the install failed for dependency reasons, which boiled down when I analyzed it to a missing configparser, which I was able to trace to the fact that the shell I was running apt from had a default Python version of 3.6. Switching to 2.7 let the installation complete. Mind you, FreeCAD still doesn't work. Run from the Xfce menu or a shell, it complains that, "No module named WebGUI" something. It gets cut off there on the status bar. Switching between Python2 and Python3 has no effect. I can't find a Python module named "WebGUI" at all. What the? Any suggestions? Running Testing on an AMD64 CPU. Add'l information if you can tell me what would be useful. Thanks. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com