Downloading QCAD

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

My Windows 10 is paying silly beggars, so I'm trying to download QCAD to my 64 bit Linux laptop. I've been to the website and hit the appropriate button, and in my downloads folder is qcad-3.24.3-trial-linux-x86_64.run.

Click on this and I get an error message xed has not been able to detect the character encoding……..

Anyone got any bright ideas

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

mint is trying open the .run file as a graphical image.

Right click on the file, select Properties / Permissions, set it as executable and try double clicking again.

Or,

Open a terminal, cd to Downloads, and enter:

chmod +x qcad-3.24.3-trial-linux-x86_64.run

then run it with:

./qcad-3.24.3-trial-linux-x86_64.run

Dave

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Tat seems to have worked, at least I have a QCAD icon, but got to take the hound out now

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