1.3 Linux notes

Running Fritzing

./fritzing.sh

The above does not work on (at least) Fedora 31. The script can not find either the created binary, or the needed code library. The sudo make install build step installed Fritzing to the /usr/bin/ folder. It can be run with just

Fritzing

On recent Fedora with wayland, QT is not quite (yet) compatible. This probably currently applies to any environment that is running Wayland. To tell QT to use the X11 display manager instead of wayland.

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb; Fritzing

When run, the program will give you an error about the parts library. You must download Parts from the github repository and put it in the Home Folder.

If you have already cloned the parts library from github, you can tell Fritzing to use that by appending

--parts "path/to/fritzing-parts"

to the command line. A 2 line script file can simplify that.

#! /bin/sh
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb; Fritzing --parts "path/to/fritzing-parts" "$@"