Hello, I just installed Ubuntu Mate in my Raspberry PI, and I love it. However I would like to be able to install freecad but I could not find it using apt-get. I also tried compiling it but there are some packages and libraries that do not have an installation candidate for example libsoqt4-dev and Pivy.
Is there a way to get freecad installed in Mate ?
Sadly, Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2 is lacking hardware acceleration for OpenGL, and looking at this thread on the FreeCAD forums, it’s seems unlikely to work.
It should work on Raspbian, as it’s available in their repositories and has accelerated GPU support.
Of course, freecad is available in the repos for i386/amd64 (the PC version of Ubuntu MATE)
That’s too sad.
I don’t understand why the OpenGL ES is not already implemented on the distributions that target the RPI.
Hopefully they will in the future, because the performance should increase significantly, and it will make the platform even more attractive as many more applications could be run.