Package Details: fritzing 1.0.4-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/fritzing.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: fritzing
Description: PCB layout prototyping application
Upstream URL: http://fritzing.org
Licenses: GPL3
Submitter: phects
Maintainer: Bevan
Last Packager: Bevan
Votes: 243
Popularity: 0.067678
First Submitted: 2009-05-31 14:31 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-11 15:11 (UTC)

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Bevan commented on 2023-09-25 08:41 (UTC) (edited on 2023-11-02 19:48 (UTC) by Bevan)

Please do not flag this package out of date unless there is source code available for a newer version than represented here. Unfortunately, upstream is very reluctant in releasing their GPL3 licensed code to the public.

See:

https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues/3876

https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues/3881

https://forum.fritzing.org/t/can-t-find-source-code/19723

https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues/4070

Bevan commented on 2022-04-02 08:37 (UTC)

ericfont: No need to downgrade libgit2. You just need to rebuild Fritzing after the libgit2 update. This happens regularly.

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ericfont commented on 2022-04-01 19:58 (UTC)

When run, I got error "error while loading shared libraries: libgit2.so.1.3". However I was able to avoid that by downgrading libgit2 from current version 1.4.2 to 1.3.0.

lnoferin commented on 2021-12-12 05:16 (UTC)

@Bevan: thanks, rebuilded with

yay -S fritzing

and now it works!

Bevan commented on 2021-12-08 18:33 (UTC)

Sorry for the late replies:

@SwankyBarbecue4: See the response by slashinfty. You can start fritzing from the command line as Fritzing. The capital F is an upstream decision... Fritzing should also show up in dmenu due to the installed desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.fritzing.Fritzing.desktop). I'm not sure how well w3m/dmenu is integrated into pacman, so maybe some cache wasn't updated after install and therefore it does not show up immediately.

@lnoferin: You need to rebuild the package to link against the new version of libgit2.

slashinfty commented on 2021-12-08 18:18 (UTC)

@SwankyBarbecue4 try Fritzing with a capital F

lnoferin commented on 2021-12-06 06:47 (UTC)

I can't run fritzing because I get this error

Fritzing: error while loading shared libraries: libgit2.so.1.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The command

 ldd /usr/bin/Fritzing

gives this error

libgit2.so.1.2 => not found

but I have these libraries installed

 pacman -Ss libgit                                                                                                                                                                                                              ✔ 
 extra/libgit2 1:1.3.0-1 [installato]
     A linkable library for Git

I am on manjaro and this happens on arm64 (raspberry pi400) and on amd64 architecture

SwankyBarbecue4 commented on 2021-12-01 23:23 (UTC)

How can I launch this package? I installed using yay -S fritzing, however I am unable to find the package when searching for it in dmenu. I am using i3wm.

Bevan commented on 2021-08-21 18:13 (UTC) (edited on 2021-09-26 19:50 (UTC) by Bevan)

Below comment is obsolete. The github repository by now has been updated and this package tries to reflect the official releases again. Please consider buying the official package to fund ongoing development of Fritzing.

For a while now Fritzing does not provide binary downloads for free but asks for a donation before giving you the possibility to download the software. I think this is fair. However, since the code was available on github under GPL license, it was still possible to build the software from source.

This seems to have changed now. On github there is no tagged release after 0.9.6. There is only a single commit on the develop branch since March and none on master since February. No signs of recent development or releases. To me it looks like open source development has stopped. People who buy the software should be able to request the source code due to the GPL license. I have not.

I'll wait some time for comments here or on github or maybe ask myself in their issue tracker. But it may very well be that this package has no future.

Update: Discussions on the topic are ongoing. See:

Bevan commented on 2021-06-11 19:31 (UTC)

@OJaksch: Done. Thanks for testing!

OJaksch commented on 2021-06-03 15:10 (UTC)

Please enable arch=aarch64. Just build it for myself and it is working with my rpi400.

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