How to install BricsCAD V26 in Ubuntu 26.04

Martin Vogel
Martin Vogel
in Licensing and installation

I just tried to install and run BricsCAD V26 on a freshly configured CAD Workstation (Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tower Gen 2 with Nvidia RTX 5080).

The installation of the .deb package finished without error.

Doubleclicking the BricsCAD icon had no results.

Starting the program with the command "bricscadv26" in the console showed the error message "error while loading shared libraries: libOpenGL.so.0".

This could be fixed with

sudo apt install libopengl0

On the next try, a new message appeared: "error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1".

Well,

sudo apt install libglu1-mesa

Third try: "error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2".

sigh …

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.16 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2

Finally, BricsCAD started and I could open and edit drawings … as long as I stayed in the visual style "2D-wireframe". Every other visual style lead to the well-known problems with Wayland.

Next step probably will be to install X11 and the Cinnamon desktop …

Comments

  • NedCAD
    NedCAD
    edited May 29

    In my tar-based BricsCAD tree I do not see bundled libssl.so* or libcrypto.so*. ldd ./bricscad resolves both to the system libraries, e.g. /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.3 and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3. So if these are reported missing, I would first check whether the target system actually provides OpenSSL 3 libraries, rather than expecting them inside the BricsCAD directory.

    About X11: Sounds reasonable. I'm running BricsCAD V26 Linux "custom-version" (latest&greatest), in order not to taint my Linux install, on X11 + XFCE without issues, so testing with X11 could help narrow down whether this is a Wayland-related problem.