[packman] [PM] FreeCAD 0.9.2646-1.pm.1.42 (openSUSE 11.2/i586)

[Michael Soibelman]

I've been checking out your package for about a month now.  I figure that by 
the time it is at version 1.0 I'll have a pretty good foundation upon which 
to build.  I see that you have updates quite frequently and so the 
development seems to be proceeding at a fast pace.  I only hope it continues 
as many people will want to use this program.

But that's not what I'm contacting you about.  I'm curious about the error 
message I (and presumably others) get when starting up FreeCAD:

Error: The Python-Pivy package must be installed on your system to use the 
Draft moduleError: Python-qt4 package must be installed on your system to use 
the Draft module

I'm using openSUSE-11.2 as well as the following:
python-pivy-0.5.0svn765-0.pm.2.1, python-qt4-4.6.1-1.1.1 & 
python-qt4-devel-4.6.1-1.1.1.  So it isn't because I don't have these 
programs installed that I get the error message.  I'm wondering if I need to 
install a more recent version of .........
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Figured this out!  O.K.  That took a few minutes but, as I was typing, I 
thought I'd check something out.  This is what I did.  I added the openSUSE 
repository here:

 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt46/openSUSE_11.2

to my list of repo's.  Then I updated python-qt4 & python-qt4-devel to the 
following versions:

python-qt4-4.7-14.1.i586
python-qt4-devel-4.7-14.1.i586

Then I restarted FreeCAD and voila..the error message disappeared and all the 
functions are working.  Though I'm sure there is still much to do this is a 
vast improvement.

So I wish to pass this on to you so that perhaps you'll consider added a 
comment in the README.Linux file regarding the addition of this repo.

Thank you for your consideration.

Michael Soibelman