I'm trying to install FreeCAD on my computer (running 18.10), and am running into a bit of trouble with the installation. I would like to use the latest stable release from ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable, as the version in the main repositories is outdated and has several errors on startup. The issue is, even after adding the PPA to my sources, apt still installs the version from the official repositories.
This is my output from running sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian cosmic InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/kicad-5/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Fetched 241 kB in 1s (343 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
So you would think the latest packages from the FreeCAD maintainers stable PPA should be available, right? However, the output of apt policy freecad is
freecad:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.16.6712+dfsg1-3build1
Version table:
0.16.6712+dfsg1-3build1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 Packages
If it's useful, here's my /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 18.10 _Cosmic Cuttlefish_ - Release amd64 (20181017.3)]/ cosmic main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic main restricted
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic universe
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-updates universe
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-updates universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-updates multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-updates multiverse
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu cosmic partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu cosmic partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security multiverse
# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian cosmic contrib
# deb-src [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian cosmic contrib
And here's the output of ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 16 11:03 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 5 11:02 elmer-csc-ubuntu-ubuntu-elmer-csc-ppa-cosmic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 5 11:02 elmer-csc-ubuntu-ubuntu-elmer-csc-ppa-cosmic.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Dec 5 11:02 freecad-maintainers-ubuntu-freecad-stable-cosmic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Dec 5 11:02 freecad-maintainers-ubuntu-freecad-stable-cosmic.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Dec 5 11:02 js-reynaud-ubuntu-kicad-5-cosmic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Dec 5 11:02 js-reynaud-ubuntu-kicad-5-cosmic.list.save
If there's anything that might be useful that I forgot to provide, please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!