CAN'T RUN DRAFTSIGHT ON UBUNTU 14.04 x64bits

[aytocarmona]

The installation is successfull however I can't run DraftSigh in Ubuntu 14.04 x64
I have just dpkg -i the installer and can't run it.

I have tried to install 32 bits library because it seems a common issue found in Ubuntu forums.

All the information is aprecciated.

Thank you

[TheFu]

Welcome.
Support for 14.04 ends any day now. Trying to solve this issue on that release is counter productive.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support
Since DraftSight is commercial, contacting that company for support is the best solution. BTW, a company that can't be bothered to use a real HTTPS cert is one that I would trust running any software on my system. There isn't any reason for a self-signed cert these days (free exists and works) and hasn't been for 2+ yrs. A commercial cert is only $20 and they don't have one of those?

Move to 16.04 or 18.04 and work on getting it working there or change to a different CAD package: https://itsfoss.com/cad-software-linux/

According to this: https://www.draftsight.com/media/system-requirements-draftsight-2019 , 16.04 is the only Ubuntu it is supported on.

[rsteinmetz70112]

I can confirm Draftsight runs on 16.04, I have it running on some of my systems.

I can't speak for their website but Draftsight is a product of Dassault Systèmes (https://www.3ds.com/), a subsidiary of the Dassault Group (http://www.dassault.fr/en/), which also owns Dassault Aviation (https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/) a french aerospace company. You may have heard of them, they make the Falcon series of business jets, the Rafale Fighter and the nEUROn unmanned combat aerial vehicle among others (https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/passion/aircraft/military-dassault-aircraft/) .

Dassault Systèmes 2017 revenue was €3,242 million. SolidWorks is a better known product by the same company.

Also as of 2019 they are discontinuing the free version of Draftsight and the previous free versions will cease to run after 12/31/2019.