[arch-general] FreeCAD and KiCAD depend on different opencascade versions

[Lone_Wolf]

On 11-12-2020 11:21, Ricardo Band wrote:
> Ohai,
>
> I'd like to use FreeCAD and KiCAD on the same system but I can't
> install them both from the official repos because kicad depends on
> opencascade und freecad depends on opencascade74. I can't install both
> because these two opencascades don't like to be installed together.
>
> Is their a solution in sight? Can we recompile freecad against the
> newer opencascade?
>
> At the moment I'm using the AppImage version of freecad and the repo
> version of kicad.
>

Known issue, it has been solved in freecad development code but freecad 
devs haven't done a release yet that includes that code.

A workaround is to use freecad-git from aur.


For more info :

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=261440

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68816

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68752