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Drehstromlampe
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Archlinux Support

Post by Drehstromlampe »

Hi,

I'm thinking about purchasing a PicoScope. One of the main reasons to get one is the Linux support.
However, there seems to be know official Arch-support.
The package in the AUR seems to be outdated.

Is anyone running driver+applications on arch? And if so, how?
I thought about unpacking the rpm/deb-packages.
And I really want to avoid dualbooting any other distro just for using the oscilloscope.

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Drehstromlampe

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Re: Archlinux Support

Post by AndrewA »

Hi,

Have you installed mono on Arch? There is arch packages for mono. Do you have mono working?

I found this post about script that converts deb packages to AUR ones.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187558
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Drehstromlampe
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Re: Archlinux Support

Post by Drehstromlampe »

Thanks a lot :)

I'll have a look into it and then report back.

mti
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Re: Archlinux Support

Post by mti »

The AUR packages work well but you might consider just changing the version numbers to the lastest version before building. (Then you need to change/ignore the checksums too.)

NOTE: Picoscope does _not_ work with the latest version of Mono. This is not a problem with either the AUR files nor with Arch. Other distributions seem to have the same problem. I use Mono version 4.0.4.1-1.

/Mikael

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Re: Archlinux Support

Post by Drehstromlampe »

Hi

i installed picoscope, the libps2000 and libpicoipp from AUR successfully.
The application starts fine but won't find the scope. Do you mean that by saying that the pico-software will not work with the latest mono-version?

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Benedikt

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Re: Archlinux Support

Post by Drehstromlampe »

Thank you guys very, very much.

I have everything up and running now :)

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