#Draftsight 2016 mac mac os#

Draftsight 2016 installation trouble mac os#Īnd is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Apart from the commercial versions DraftSight Professional and DraftSight Enterprise, there is also a free version, DraftSight Free, which is billed as ‘straightforward 2D CAD software for students, hobbyists and other individuals’. I thought this would suit my purposes, as it can read and write DWG and DXF files (see the features page on the DraftSight Web site). The Gentoo Linux betagarden overlay has ebuilds for releases of DraftSight Free. The package is a proprietary binary package, the Gentoo ebuild is named media-gfx/draftsight-bin and the current version in the betagarden overlay is 1.6.1_beta. So I added the betagarden overlay using Layman, downloaded the file b (DraftSight 2015 beta) from the DraftSight Web site and copied it to /usr/portage/distfiles/draftsight-1.6.1_b as specified in the ebuild, and issued the usual emerge command to merge the package. However the ebuild would not install the package whatever I tried: Portage gave an error message that the. Draftsight 2016 installation trouble install# # cp /var/lib/layman/betagarden/media-gfx/draftsight-bin/draftsight-bin-1.6.1_beta.ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/draftsight-bin/ # mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/draftsight-bin/files # cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/b /usr/portage/distfiles/draftsight-1.6.1_b In the end I copied the ebuild and its files sub-directory to /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/draftsight-bin/ in my local overlay, disconnected from the network and merged the package: deb file could not be downloaded (despite it already being in the distfiles directory). Draftsight 2016 installation trouble install#.Draftsight 2016 installation trouble mac os#.

Draftsight 2016 mac