{"id":2281,"date":"2013-11-19T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2014-03-13T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:05:21","slug":"easily-install-draftsight-64-bit-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/easily-install-draftsight-64-bit-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to easily install DraftSight CAD in 64 bit Ubuntu 13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/draftsight-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/draftsight-logo.jpg\" alt=\"install draftsight ubuntu 13.10 64 bit\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/draftsight-logo.jpg 220w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/draftsight-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, <b>DraftSight<\/b> is a professional-grade 2D CAD software, it lets users create, edit and view .dwg and AutoCAD DXF files.<\/p>\n<p>DraftSight website only provides 32 bit version installer for Ubuntu users and this quick tutorial show how to easily install it on <b>64 bit Ubuntu 13.10<\/b> (Also works on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04).<\/p>\n<p><b>Tutorial Objectives:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install DraftSight CAD on 64 bit Ubuntu<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get started, frist install <b>Gdebi<\/b> from Ubuntu Software Center. Gdebi is a lightweight DEB package installer which was the default in Ubuntu, it will automatically resolve and install the package dependencies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2283\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gdebi-in-ubuntu-software-center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gdebi-in-ubuntu-software-center.jpg\" alt=\"Gdebi DEB installer in Ubuntu\" width=\"520\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gdebi-in-ubuntu-software-center.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gdebi-in-ubuntu-software-center-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gdebi DEB installer in Ubuntu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Download the DraftSight from its webpage or from the official link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.draftsight.com\/download-linux-ubuntu\" title=\"Download DraftSight for Ubuntu\">Download DraftSight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right click on the package and select to &#8220;open with Gdebi package installer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/install-draftsight-via-gdebi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/install-draftsight-via-gdebi.jpg\" alt=\"install draftsight via gdebi\" width=\"520\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/install-draftsight-via-gdebi.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/install-draftsight-via-gdebi-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click Install Package button. Once done, you can open DraftSight from Unity Dash. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Thanks to Quazaban and isabag, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below if your DraftSight CAD does not work after this tutorial.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, DraftSight is a professional-grade 2D CAD software, it lets users create, edit and view .dwg and AutoCAD DXF files. DraftSight website only provides 32 bit version installer for Ubuntu users and this quick tutorial show how to easily install it on 64 bit Ubuntu 13.10 (Also works on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[820,821],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-draftsight-cad","tag-easy-install-draftsight-64-bit-ubuntu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}