Installing FlatCAM on Ubuntu
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Installing FlatCAM on Ubuntu
Posted on: January 22, 2021 203 Words Takes 1 minutes to read
So FlatCAM is an essential part of my PCB milling workflow and has become increasingly difficult to install on the latest version of Ubuntu. Here’s a couple of notes on how I managed to get it running.
The first thing is to clone the repo:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam
Something I didn’t notice at first is that there’s a beta branch available, it uses newer versions of pyqt which makes everything way easier.
git checkout origin/Beta
If you are on Ubuntu you can run ubuntu_setup.sh and should install pretty
much everything you need. I did hit a snag though, for whatever reason if I
tried installing the requirements, gdal would not compile. Turns out
it comes down to it not finding the correct headers. You can get around it by
installing it manually like this:
sudo apt install libgdal-dev gdal-bin
pip install gdal==3.0.4 --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/include/gdal/"
You should use whatever version gdal-config --version prints out. You should
also update the requirements.txt so that the version of gdal is also the same
so that the rest of the dependencies install.
Once that’s up you can run it with python FlatCAM.py.
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