# Hello from merry old Germany

**URL:** http://forum.qcad.org/t/hello-from-merry-old-germany/9671
**Category:** Introduce Yourself
**Created:** [September 1, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](http://forum.qcad.org/t/hello-from-merry-old-germany/9671 "2025-09-01T17:29:10Z")
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### Author: ![Sirhenry\_HdE](http://forum.qcad.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sirhenry\_HdE](http://forum.qcad.org/u/Sirhenry_HdE)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](http://forum.qcad.org/t/hello-from-merry-old-germany/9671/1 "2025-09-01T17:29:10Z")

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I am a retired old man, but, as I feel, mentally active.  
I am using QCAD for many years in successing versions under MS Windows.  
Since Microsoft will end security support of Windows 10 this year I decided to change over to linux.  
Under advice of my son we chose OpenSuse Tumbleweed Slowroll.  
The newest version of QCAD Professional was downloaded.  
A first attempt of installing failed showing this error report:  
./qcad-b cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryin: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0:  
Using the yast tool did not succed. Simple exchange of the hyphen with an underscore solved the problem: yast detected  
libgthread\_2.0 and installed it.  
Ecce! QCAD was installed and running.