{"id":8899,"date":"2019-04-29T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:38:49","slug":"install-freecad-0-18-ubuntu-18-04-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/install-freecad-0-18-ubuntu-18-04-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install FreeCAD 0.18 in Ubuntu 18.04 \/ 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freecad-icon-1.png\" alt=\"FreeCAD 3D CAD modeler\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freecad-icon-1.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freecad-icon-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FreeCAD, free and open-source 3D parametric modeler, released version 0.18 recently with <b>Python 3<\/b> and <b>Qt 5<\/b> support. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freecadweb.org\/wiki\/Release_notes_0.18\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FreeCAD 0.18<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extended TechDraw tools<\/li>\n<li>New sketcher tools, more stable and robust PartDesign<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced and extended Arch and BIM tools<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned Start center<\/li>\n<li>New Navigation Cube<\/li>\n<li>Specify a custom background image for FreeCAD&#8217;s main window<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TechDraw_sheet_screenshot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TechDraw_sheet_screenshot-600x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TechDraw_sheet_screenshot-600x361.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TechDraw_sheet_screenshot-450x271.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TechDraw_sheet_screenshot-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TechDraw_sheet_screenshot.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Install or Upgrade FreeCAD in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~freecad-maintainers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/freecad-stable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FreeCAD PPA<\/a> has built the latest release packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut, or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers\/freecad-stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/freecad-ppa-bionic-600x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"121\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/freecad-ppa-bionic-600x121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/freecad-ppa-bionic-450x91.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/freecad-ppa-bionic.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> If a previous release was installed on your system, upgrade it via <b>Software Updater<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/upgrade-freecad-450x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/upgrade-freecad-450x322.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/upgrade-freecad-600x430.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/upgrade-freecad.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or install the software via following commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install freecad<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove FreeCAD, simply run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --auto-remove freecad<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the PPA, open <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-freecad-ppa-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-freecad-ppa-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-freecad-ppa-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-freecad-ppa.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FreeCAD, free and open-source 3D parametric modeler, released version 0.18 recently with Python 3 and Qt 5 support. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04. FreeCAD 0.18 release highlights: Extended TechDraw tools New sketcher tools, more stable and robust PartDesign Enhanced and extended Arch and BIM tools Redesigned Start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1260,1704],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-freecad","tag-freecad-python-3"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","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=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}