Discussion forum for the new Picoscope Linux software
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mario_
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by mario_ » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:02 pm
PicoScope6GTK requires mono installation for operation. CentOS6 and derivatives don't provide this requirement. Yet there is workaround using packages available on opensuse.download.org server. To get mono requirement for PicoScope6GTK on Centos6, run the following steps in the terminal:
1. Configure custom repository
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sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/monoEL6.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono:/EL6/RHEL6/Mono:EL6.repo
sudo yum check-update
2. Install gdiplus dependecy
3. Install PicoScope as described in http://www.picotech.com/support/topic13431.html - Fedora 20 section
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sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/picoscope.repo http://labs.picotech.com/rpm/picoscope.repo
sudo rpmkeys --import http://labs.picotech.com/rpm/repodata/repomd.xml.key
sudo yum check-update
sudo yum install picoscope
4. Configure gdiplus to be used in mono
a. get the location of the library (/usr/lib64/libgdiplus.so.0 usually)
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sudo ldconfig -p | grep -m1 gdiplus | cut -d' ' -f4
b. edit mono config (replace vi with your favorite text editor)
c. Insert following line before the last containing , replacing [location] with what you found in step a.
d. save the file and PicoScope should work!
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spiralphenomena
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by spiralphenomena » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:08 pm
I'm still having some issues installing on CentOS. I get the following even after I've installed libgdiplus:
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Error: Package: picoscope-6.11.8-4r3.noarch (picoscope)
Requires: mono(Microsoft.VisualBasic)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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mario_
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by mario_ » Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:02 pm
Hi spiralphenomena,
The repository doesn't provide mono-basic package. Maybe you could source it from somewhere else? For example: https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opens ... oarch.html
(then download and rpm -i )
I'm not sure though if it won't need any more dependencies.
Mario
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clabbate
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by clabbate » Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:38 am
Hello,
I just tried to follow this procedure, but I have problems with the part.
Apparently the version of zlib is not recent enough, the version provided with CentOS 6.8 is the 1.2.3-29.
Somebody know a solution for this issue ?
Thanks in advance