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How to run Fritzing on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

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I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS and then installed Fritzing using packages from official repository by using below command

sudo apt-get install fritzing

Then on first launch it showed three windows with errors

Oops!

Sorry, we have a problem with the swapping mechanism.

Fritzing still works, but you won't be able to change parts properties.

Fritzing

Cannot read file /home/username/bins/core.fzb:

No such file or directory.

Fritzing

Fritzing cannot load the parts bin

and the parts list was empty as the result. I need to run Fritzing for my hobby project.

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answered 2 Years ago nquirewha · Accepted Answer

So we have a problem here - the official Fritzing 0.9.3b deb-package which is broken in 18.04 LTS.

I have reported a bug 1949087 about such behaviour.

Also I have created a PPA for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Fritzing 0.9.3b from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

So one can install the deb-packaged version using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/fritzing

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install fritzing

and it will function normally on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

To have updated parts use the hack below:

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/fritzing/parts



sudo apt-get install git

sudo git clone https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-parts.git -b develop /usr/share/fritzing/parts

It should be noted that packages even for Ubuntu 21.10 is still 0.9.3b, so same version.

So if one needs newer version, then there is a way to replace it with Flatpak version as follows:

sudo apt-get purge --autoremove fritzing



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flatpak/stable

sudo apt update

sudo apt install flatpak



flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo



flatpak install flathub org.fritzing.Fritzing

and then enjoy Fritzing 0.9.6 as the result.