On: FreeCAD 0.16 release notes

[oxplot]

Unfortunately every time I installed FreeCAD, it crashed me consistently after 10 minutes of work.

[buovjaga → oxplot]

Quoting from their FAQ:

If you are on a linux system, it is easy to do a debug backtrace, which provides very useful information about the crash to the developers:

in a terminal, type: gdb freecad (assuming package gdb is installed)

inside gdb, type run

after the crash, type bt to get the backtrace, that you can include in your bug report.

Guide for submitting reports: http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tracker

[unixhero → buovjaga]

Ooh thanks! I will try this on other apps that might crash in the future.

[optforfon → unixhero]

the software has to be compiled with symbols... which I don't think the binaries in the default repositories have (I could be wrong)

[buovjaga → optforfon]

You are correct, the FAQ seems to have missed it: http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Debugging

"To do this, you need to be running a "debug build" of the software. "Debug build" is a parameter that is set at compile time, so you'll either need to compile FreeCAD yourself, or obtain a pre-compiled "debug" version."