freecad version

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:04:28 -0600 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> does anyone know what version of freecad "comes with"  Ubuntu 20.04 ?  
> (I mean the one that gets installed using  apt-get install freecad)
> 
> (I assume there is no option to install the newest version, I believe 
> 0.19 ?)

I'm pretty sure the latest 'official' release of freecad is like 0.18.4.  
0.19.* are all "beta" releases, so they probably are NOT going to be picked up 
by distribution packagers.  If you want a newer version you will have to 
either build from source yourself or use the self-contained install 
executables.   Official development of freecad is somewhat "stalled". I think 
there is some sort of effort to kick start the development process...

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> thanks,
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> Ron
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