I tried to install Fritzing on Ubuntu 18.04, it failed! I figured out a workaround but I don’t see it written anywhere online in such a way that is clear and practical.
So, I understand that development on the javascript client/api is taking up all time now. And, at least for now, the desktop app of Fritzing is not actively developed. Therefor chances of this issue being resolved very soon are starting to look slim.
I started out by removing all Fritzing related files:
sudo apt purge fritzing*
sudo apt autoremove
Then I removed the config folder:
rm -rf ~/.config/Fritzing/
Next I reïnstalled Fritzing:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install fritzing
Starting the application normally resulted in the file /home/username/bins/core.fzb not being accessible.
Starting the application in terminal produced the following output:
$ Fritzing -f fritzing-parts
/usr/bin/Fritzing: 3: cd: can't cd to /usr/share/fritzing/parts
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/wouter/bins/core.fzb"): device not open
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/wouter/bins/contribParts.fzb"): device not open
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/wouter/bins/core.fzb"): device not open
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/wouter/bins/contribParts.fzb"): device not open
It is clear that the parts are simply not available. To fix this, we can download them seperately from github:
cd /usr/share/fritzing/
sudo git clone https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-parts.git
sudo mv fritzing-parts/ parts
You can now start the app normally or via terminal by typing: Fritzing.
I hope this helps some people out who have trouble starting Fritzing on Ubuntu 18.04 because of missing parts.