Hello,
I purchased a Carbide Create Pro license and installed it in my Carbide Create Pro 8 running in wine. The registration works and it tells me to restart CC. The problem is that upon restart, no license is installed and I get the same free version. I can go back to register, paste the license key and not restart CC in order to use the Pro features but that is very annoying.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thank you
Welcome to the forum, sorry I donât have an answer for you on the install of the license. There are numerous folks on here running OS other than WIN/MAC with CC that can help you.
Can you manually paste a file named license.txt containing all the license info in the Carbide Create folder on your hard drive?
As @Ed.E stated the license is read when CC starts. It is installed at:
Open CC. Go to the Help Menu and About. Click on the Open Data directory. Then open the CC directory. Here is a picture of my directory.
My Pro License is the âlicense.txtâ file. The reason after installing the Pro License to restart CC is because the license file is read at startup of CC. So try as @Ed.E suggested and put your license file in place and restart CC to see if the license comes up.
Hi guys and thank you for your replies. @gdon_2003 the path you shown did the trick. Thanks again for all your help!
Off-topic: I see that CC is using QT. Why is there no linux build then? If thereâs interest I can perform a port.
A Linux build would have to be supported, which would require that tech support staff source and run Linux computers in addition to Mac OS and Windows â a significant expense â moreover, it has been our experience on support that folks running Linux want a full opensource software stack. Inkscape and FreeCAD seem a better fit for most Linux users.
I am just saying that as you use Qt and already have builds for Windows and Apple builds, I would assume it wouldnât take much to also make a native build for linux. I am talking about paying customers
I dont work for C3D or speak for them. Linux is a great OS but the general public using Linux is a very low percentage.
The following is from a Google Search which AI replied.
Desktop/Laptop Operating Systems:
As you can see above 4% use Linux so do the math on return on investment. That would be a very low rate of return when they can get 71%+ 16% (Windows/Mac) for 87% coverage. When I worked for Oracle we used their version of Linux on our laptops. It was a very secure OS but its main problem is the lack of consumer applications available. Yes there are many specialized apps like Gimp and Inkscape but what if you wanted a banking/money management applications. Unless you write it that does not exist. Although Linux is a good OS it is just not going to be ready for prime time for general users anytime soon. The only Linux they have is for the Raspberry Pi but that is Linux based and not as widely used as maybe Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and MX Linux.
You may love Linux but the rest of the world has not caught your fever for Linux and likely never will. Linux has been around a long time but seems to best suited as a server OS over a consumer OS.
@gdon_2003 While I agree with many of the points you brought up, this was not meant to start a holy war on operating systems, I am too old for that.
I was simply curious of the reasoning of not supporting a linux build as the thing is using Qt anyways and on first look it doesnât seem to have platform specific code, which would mean that it would be a low hanging fruit.
Weâd be interested in an âunsupportedâ Linux build, but Iâm not sure we can make everyone happy with a single build (which is all we could manage). Based on the other projects I see targeting Linux, the bug reports are filled with âYou need a build for the distribution/CPU I use.â
An âunsupportedâ linux build sounds perfect. Perhaps AppImage could be of help here (https://appimage.org/). I am available should there be a need for betatesting/developing.
