How to Install LibreCAD on Linux Mint 20

To Install LibreCAD on Linux Mint 20

Introduction:

LibreCAD is a Computer-aided design application for the 2D design that supports the OS including Linux, macOS, Unix, and Windows OS. This tutorial will cover the installation of LibreCAD on Linux Mint 20.

Installation Procedure:

First check the version of the Linux Mint OS

root@LinuxHelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Linuxmint
Description:	Linux Mint 20
Release:	20
Codename:	ulyana
Now update the packages by using the below command

Update the repository files

root@LinuxHelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]                                                   
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana InRelease                                                                      
Hit:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                                                                 
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Get:29 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages [521 kB]                                  
Get:30 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [56.5 kB]                          
Fetched 5,263 kB in 8s (681 kB/s)                                                                                         
Reading package lists... Done

Now install the librecad by using following command

root@LinuxHelp:~# apt-get install librecad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libmuparser2v5 libqt5printsupport5 librecad-data
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmuparser2v5 libqt5printsupport5 librecad librecad-data
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 403 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 116 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libmuparser2v5 amd64 2.2.6.1+dfsg-1build1 [102 kB]
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Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.15-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24+linuxmint1) ...

Once the installation is completed. Open the LibreCAD application on the menu bar Select your languages as follows This is overview of LibreCAD application

Here you can see the version of LibreCAD With this method, the installation of LibreCAD on Linux Mint 20 is comes to an end.