Archlinux PKGBUILD

QCAD Professional QCAD Installation and Upgrades
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I created a PKGBUILD file in order to build an Archlinux package for QCAD Professional.

This way, my system package manager is aware of the installation and it avoids conflicts with a potential parallel installation of the Community Edition.

In order to build the package the user has to manually download the .tar.gz archive of QCAD Professional, through the provided download link at time of purchase and run makepkg.
This copies the QCAD files in the installation directory, creates the .desktop entry and associates mime types.

This also ensures that everything is removed when uninstalling, using the distro package manager.

Would you be OK with me publishing the PKGBUILD, here and/or on the Arch User Repository ?
(it’s basically a shell script, it does not contain any IP protected information, and people still have to have a download link for the QCAD Professional Edition)

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Yes, that is of course fine. Please don’t publish the tar.gz downloaded from our web site.

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Of course :smiley: it is still up to the user to download their purchased version of QCAD before building the Arch package.

I cannot post it here, as the forum detects it as spam…
Here it is: PKGBUILD to build an Archlinux package for QCAD Professional Edition · GitHub