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BurntVoxel

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Registered: 2025-02-02

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FreeCAD not working because a library got updated or something?

Hey, new guy here. I need to ask what's the appropriate place to check if problems like this have already been reported? I've been using FreeCAD for a while, and after a software update, it stopped working.
Apparently it's (mistakenly?) hard-coded to require `xerces-c-3.2`, and since updating to 3.3 it can't find xerces. I just downgraded back and FreeCAD is working again.
Specific error message: `freecad: error while loading shared libraries: libxerces-c-3.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: FreeCAD not working because a library got updated or something?

It It's a packaging bug that needs to be reported on Arch's gitlab instance. Always check it with lddtree first to makes sure it's not a different package that's the issue, we often see people with packages from the AUR that are still linked to the old libs, but in this case, you're correct.

Edit: and it's now been reported: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … /issues/17

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-02-03 00:07:51)