What I’ve looked at so far
* lx-viewer – not tried, but seems abandoned (QT3? – we are up to QT5 now…)
* dwg2dxf – not actually open source, and wont work on 64 bit systems, due to precompiled lib.
* librecad – no DWG support at this time. BSD licence constraint means they wont work with openDWG, which is GPLd. IMHO, they could switch to GPL, as no-one will re-use their code as a lib.
* Freecad : – doesn’t work in debian : “Teigha File Converter not found, DWG support is disabled”

so… nice to know how it is done these days!

Damn proofing tools! 🙂

You’re right a line missile in the cut and paste.

Byte

Thanks! I updated the post.
BTW, there were a “fi” missing at the end, I’m sure it remained stuck in the mouse pointer… 🙂

#!bin/sh

## Fix a DraftSight Debian package to make it installable on a 64bit machine.

## Last known realease is http://dl-ak.solidworks.com/nonsecure/draftsight/V1R4.0/draftSight.deb

ORIGINAL=draftSight.deb
PACKAGE=fixed-$ORIGINAL

if ! test -f $ORIGINAL
then
echo $ORIGINAL file does not exist.
PACKAGE=$(zenity –file-selection –filename=draftSight.deb –file-filter=deb)
fi

echo Copying $ORIGINAL into $PACKAGE
cp $ORIGINAL $PACKAGE || exit 5;

echo Extracting control.tar.gz
ar x $PACKAGE control.tar.gz || exit 5;

echo Unpacking control.tar.gz into control directory
mkdir –parent control || exit 5;
tar -zxf control.tar.gz –directory control || exit 5;
mv control.tar.gz control.tar.gz.orig

echo “Removing wrong dependency (xdg-utils)”
if sed –in-place -e “s/ xdg-utils,//” control/control
then
echo Repacking contents of ‘control’ directory into control.tar.gz
(cd control; tar –create –file ../control.tar *) || exit 5;
gzip –best –no-name control.tar
echo Storing patched control.tar.gz back into $PACKAGE;
ar r $PACKAGE control.tar.gz || exit 5;
echo Draftsight original package $ORIGINAL patched into $PACKAGE

I see. But, good work! 🙂

Thanks for the hint, I’ll update my script ASAP.
These days I’ve been quite busy; among the other things I’ve been trying to build a package for Debian but it’s harder than I thought.

PS: There is a little change only:
xdg-utils, must be removed instead of libdirectfb-extra (>=1.2.7-2),
and everything works fine!
Have a nice day! 🙂