title: How to fritzing on Linux
body: <p>Following this guide:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/wiki/1.3-Linux-notes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/wiki/1.3-Linux-notes</a></p>
  
  <p>I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/usr/bin/ld: /home/user/fritzing/fritzing-app/../libgit2/build/libgit2.a(xprepare.c.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
  /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  Makefile.Release:1091: recipe for target 'Fritzing' failed
  make[1]: *** [Fritzing] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/fritzing/fritzing-app'
  Makefile:42: recipe for target 'release' failed
  make: *** [release] Error 2
  </code></pre>
  
  <pre><code>$ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
  Release:    18.04
  Codename:   bionic
  
  $ gcc --version
  gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0
  Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  
  $ qmake --version
  QMake version 3.1
  Using Qt version 5.14.2 in /home/jeremy/Qt5.14.2/5.14.2/gcc_64/lib
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have not done C++ in a while so I am not familiar with this error.</p>