Libfmt.so.8 missing for FreeCAD's FEM

Hello everyone

I am new to EndeavoursOS (been a Manjaro user for a while) and I am enjoying my experience here.

I did stumble up on a weird behaviour in FreeCAD. I made a simple plate, and was going to see if Gmesh would work in FEM, but I got a weird error

17:08:54  libfmt.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
17:08:54  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 72, in Initialize
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/shiboken2/files.dir/shibokensupport/__feature__.py", line 142, in _import
    return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)

While having FEM selected and going into Preferences, the FEM preferences do not show up.

I have checked both pacman and AUR for libfmt package, and it seems not to be awailable. I did open up a ticket at FreeCAD forum, but they asked me to contact you guys.

I am sure some of you have a working FreeCAD and might be able to help me.
FreeCAD info:

OS: 'EndeavourOS' (KDE/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: makepkg
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.10.1
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.3
Locale: Icelandic/Iceland (is_IS)

I do have gmsh and calculix installed.

https://clbin.com/rgBRg

This seems to be provided by a package called fmt. Do you have it installed?

I did not, didn’t know this. I have installed fmt but the problem persist. Maybe I need to reboot for it to take effect?

Why not? A reboot won’t hurt.

Well, after a reboot the error message is slihgtly different now:

08:31:20  libpugixml.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
08:31:20  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 72, in Initialize
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/shiboken2/files.dir/shibokensupport/__feature__.py", line 142, in _import
    return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)

I installed pugixml after installing fmt and FEM seems to work now, will mark this as solved for now.

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Glad to hear that your issue is resolved!

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Welcome to the forum @olividir :tada::tada::partying_face:

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@pebcak and @kjw thank you for the warm wellcome :slight_smile:

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