[Slackbuilds-users] FreeCAD compiles, but crashes and burns on takeoff

[Christoph Willing]

On 10/03/2014, at 5:51 AM, Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond at acadiau.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just used sboinstall to install FreeCad (and, as far as I can tell
> from reading the READMEs, all the required and optional dependencies).
> 
> When I go to start FreeCAD, I get
> 
> FreeCAD 0.13, Libs: 0.13R$WCREV$
> © Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2011
>  #####                 ####  ###   ####  
>  #                    #      # #   #   # 
>  #     ##  #### ####  #     #   #  #   # 
>  ####  # # #  # #  #  #     #####  #   # 
>  #     #   #### ####  #    #     # #   # 
>  #     #   #    #     #    #     # #   #  ##  ##  ##
>  #     #   #### ####   ### #     # ####   ##  ##  ##
> 
> During initialization the error the sip module implements API v7.0 to v7.1 but the PyQt4.QtCore module requires API v9.1 occurred in /opt/FreeCAD/Mod/Ship/InitGui.py
> During initialization the error the sip module implements API v7.0 to v7.1 but the PyQt4.QtGui module requires API v9.1 occurred in /opt/FreeCAD/Mod/Plot/InitGui.py
> zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  FreeCAD
> 
> 
> I'm at a loss as to how to proceed.  Can anyone set me on the right path?
> 
> (I'm on Slackware 64 14.1 + multilib, and I'm hoping no-one will tell
> me that multilib is the problem.)


Do you have non-standard sip and/or PyQt package(s)? Each PyQt release needs a particular version of sip. For instance, you shouldn't replace the Slackware official PyQt with the latest version without first installing a newer version of sip.

chris