Figure out where the old install place FreeCAD. Type "which freecad" and the you see the full path to the program. Then just deleter is using "rm".
If you have some kind of desktop shortcut to the old freecad you just deleted then edit them to point to the appimage. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:43 AM Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
