1. Select a suitable root directory for installation. Help files in qcad (5.1) suggest /opt as probably suitable. I followed that suggestion. The tar ball for demo version or for pro version on my amd64 is located in a subdirectory of Documents directory:
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For the demo version:
/home/ak/Documents/downloads/CAD/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz/
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1.1 cd /opt
1.2 cp /home/ak/Documents/downloads/CAD/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz ./
1.3 tar -zxvf /home/ak/Documents/downloads/CAD/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz
1.4 mv qcad-2.2.2.0-1-demo.linux.x86.tar.gz qcad
2. The program can now be started in CLI (aka "Console") whilst the present work directory is /opt ("pwd" will verify what the present work directory is). In openSUSE the default promt for the root user would probably be "/opt #"):
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For the demo version:
2.1 /opt # qcad/qcad-demo &
For a full version the command is:
2.1 /opt/ # qcad/qcad
Step 1.2 for the pro version looks a little different, as "-demo"is replaced by -"prof".
If you are familiar with Linux, please forgive me for writing this in such detail: my hope is that some CAD users will switch to Linux because of this fine, relatively inexpensive CAD program!
Disclosure - I have no pecuniary interest in this enterprise.
OldAl.