DebianScript

Copy and paste this into a file named "compile.sh". Then type chmod u+x compile.sh && ./compile.sh

You will have to fix problems as they come up, but it's better than nothing. You have to get the opencascade libraries before running this script, since it requires registration. Or, download them while you run the script. Dont forget to define $PATH_TO_OCC

sudo apt-get update
 * 1) setup build environment for freecad on debian testing
 * 2) btw this is probably incomplete. please fix any obvious errors!

sudo apt-get install libcoin40c2 libcoin40-dev libqt4 libqt4-dev \ libboost* python2.5 python2.5-dev libxerces27 \ libgts-dev libgts-0.7-5 libxerces27-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev checkinstall

sudo apt-get remove libsoqt20 libsoqt-dev
 * 1) dont want these packages with qt4 installed:

wget http://ftp.coin3d.org/coin/src/all/SoQt-1.4.1.tar.gz tar -zxvf SoQt* cd SoQt* sudo cp cfg/soqt.m4 /usr/share/aclocal
 * 1) compile libSoQt


 * 1) this doesnt work
 * 2) sed -i 's/SIM_AC_QT_PROG(MOC, moc)/SIM_AC_QT_PROG(MOC, moc-qt4)/' configure.ac

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/moc-qt4 /usr/local/bin/moc ./configure --with-qt=/usr/lib/qt4 && make sudo rm /usr/local/bin/moc checkinstall -D -y sudo dpkg -i soqt*deb
 * 1) we get the wrong (qt3) moc by default, so pull a switcheroo
 * 1) sudo apt-get remove libsoqt20

cd /usr/local sudo mkdir OpenCASCADE sudo chown $USER OpenCASCADE cd OpenCASCADE tar -zxf $PATH_TO_OCC/OpenCASCADE_Linux.tgz sudo java -jar Linux/setup.jar sudo chown $USER /usr/local/OpenCASCADE/ -R
 * 1) get opencascade libraries. 182MB + you have to jump through some hoops
 * 1) $ dpkg -l sun*
 * 2) ii sun-java5-jre 1.5.0-12-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment
 * 1) pointy clicky drool
 * 2) i changed the destination directory to /usr/local/OpenCASCADE
 * 3) pick complete installation
 * 4) it only took about 15 minutes
 * 5) you might want to change the file permissions

cp /usr/local/OpenCASCADE/ros/configure \ /usr/local/OpenCASCADE/ros/configure.bak sed -i \ 's/CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS "/CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -ffriend-injection -fpermissive"/'\ /usr/local/OpenCASCADE/ros/configure
 * 1) i'm not sure if you actually have to compile opencascade or not

cd /usr/local/OpenCASCADE/ros/ ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 --with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.4 cd adm/make find adm/make -name 'Makefile' -exec sed -i \ 's|CSF_TclTkLibs_INCLUDES = -I/usr/include|CSF_TclTkLibs_INCLUDES = -I/usr/include/tk8.4|' {} \; time make time sudo make install
 * 1) the include path can get messed up, but this didnt happen for me for tcl
 * 2) uncomment if you dont see $string1/tcl8.4
 * 3) find . -name 'Makefile' -exec sed -i \
 * 's|CSF_TclLibs_INCLUDES = -I/usr/include|CSF_TclLibs_INCLUDES = -I/usr/include/tcl8.4|' {} \;
 * 1) make sure you have at least 7GB available, maybe more
 * 1) real   568m35.068s
 * 2) checkinstall didnt work so well - dpkg error "empty version" ?
 * 1) real    20m10.055s

cd /usr/local sudo mkdir freecad sudo chown $USER freecad svn co https://free-cad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/free-cad/trunk freecad cd freecad ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-occ-include=/usr/local/OpenCASCADE/ros/inc/ \ --with-occ-lib=/usr/local/lib/ time make checkinstall -Dy sudo dpkg -i freecad*deb
 * 1) finally, get the freecad source code and compile it