Linux device support

[AndrewA]

For installing drivers on armhf - Raspberry-Pi systems see-
viewtopic.php?p=145119#p145119

For dataloggers on amd64 systems you can manually download and install the deb packages from url repo below.
https://labs.picotech.com/debian
https://labs.picotech.com/rpm
Use-

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sudo dpkg -i ./libpsXXXXX.deb

To install the deb package.

Or setup the PicoScope 6 repo listed below.

For PicoScope devices on amd64 (PC) systems please use the current PicoScope 7 repository-
See - https://www.picotech.com/downloads/linux

Alterative method of using shared libraries files directly (*.so files") instead of deb packages see-
viewtopic.php?p=146876#p146876

PicoScope 6 repository details for reference-

Setup the PicoScope 6 repo-

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sudo bash -c 'echo "deb https://labs.picotech.com/debian/ picoscope main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/picoscope.list'

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wget -O - https://labs.picotech.com/debian/dists/picoscope/Release.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

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sudo apt-get update

Install a package driver for your scope model, for example the USB TC-08 uses the libusbtc08 API-

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sudo apt-get install libusbtc08

You can install PicoScope 6 by using-

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sudo apt-get install picoscope

NOTE- you cannot have PicoScope 6 and PicoScope 7 installed on the same system as they have the same package name "picoscope".