Will BricsCad V15.1.21-1 install on Ubuntu 18.04?

William Rhodes
William Rhodes
in Licensing and installation

I opened a V15 deb file with Ubuntu Software Install (Previously Software Center).
I got an install screen. When I clicked "install" the progress bar went quickly to 100% but nothing seemed to happen.

No software was registered. No BricsCad packages were found by Synaptic. I also get the same thing using BricsCad V18.1.17-1 deb file.

V15 works fine with Ubuntu 16.04.

What should I do?

Comments

  • Wiebe van der Worp
    Wiebe van der Worp

    Hi William
    Maybe you could read and share your experiences here:
    https://forum.bricsys.com/discussion/33834/recommended-linux-distro

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer

    At least on Kubuntu, but I think I also did it on Ubuntu,
    V18 and Shape installed properly on Linux 18.04 for me.

  • William Rhodes
    William Rhodes

    Thanks for the answers. You've encouraged me to keep trying.
    I'll probably find the install problem eventually.

  • William Rhodes
    William Rhodes

    Still no solution. I'll keep searching.

  • William Rhodes
    William Rhodes

    The BricsCad Support staff bailed me out on this one.

    They sent a link and instructions for me to download and install the following files.

    libz.so.1
    libz.so.1.2.11

    I recommend you contact BricsCad support if you think you may have a similar problem.

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer

    As far as I remember,
    these were the files missing for my Modo installation too.

    I could install Modo on my Arch based Manjaro but it refused
    to start.
    "run in Terminal" finally showed that it misses dependencies.
    I searched package manager and found something similar named.
    Which I installed and luckily made Modo able to run ....