I thought I would post this for anyone that might step this way in future 🙂
Following discussions on freecad producing g-code, I've been experimenting. The <path> workbench is where this all happens, but going to that location produced "libnglib.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" A little research revealed that I had made some errors. This is a dual boot machine and I had to reinstall Ubuntu following a Microsoft update that managed to hose its own MBR, go figure (!). The only install I had on USB was 18.04 which I then upgraded to 20.04 , I then reinstalled freecad. This was somehow the wrong path to take, producing missing dependencies etc. and (maybe) causing the error with freecad. I found that freecad also has an app image, so I downloaded that and gave it permission to run as a program. This produces a freecad that <just works>. Great, so now I can proceed, let's uninstall freecad and just run it from the app image. "apt-get remove --auto-remove freecad" produces "Package 'freecad' is not installed, so not removed". Yet I still have a freecad install that I can get to by typing freecad in a terminal or selecting it from the "applications" gui, this is the package that has unmet dependencies. I can work around this by using the app image, but I would like to hose all previous traces of the existing install to prevent (human) errors in the future. Martin _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
