ArdupilotMegaPlanner was written in .net which is a Microsoft language that they opened up the standards to. An opensource mutiplatform version of .net's CLR came out called mono. Ubuntu comes with mono installed so you can run ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe without installing anything. All you have to do is open ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe with mono and your golden.
Here are the steps I used to get ArdupilotMegaPlanner running. Right click on ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe and select "properties" now check the the "permissions" are set to executable. Now click on the "open with" tab click on "add" a new window will pop up and on the bottom you'll see "use custom command" type "mono" (without the "") and hit the "add" button now double click on ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe and you should be good to go. There are some glitches like the graph bars are sideways, the setup tool freezes and mavlink and pid adjuster only works through telemetry (which is fine by me because that is how I was wanting to use it any way), but the important functions like the firmware unloader, updates, and flight data work great!!
Oh ya it doesn't open a whole window just a menu bar that doesn't stand out at first. nothing is wrong it acts the same way in windows.
I would like to say thank you to Michael Oborne for writing the the program, making it open and available to all of us, and for writing it in a multi platform language that we all can use.
P.S. with mono installed Mac users should be able to use this program as will
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Hey All,
Is there a dedicated version of MP for Mac OS. I would like to use APM: Plane 2.76, can I do that on Mac?
If yes, can you post the link?
Thanks in advance.
Wow! This is amazing news Chris. I never managed to get mono to behave and have been using a windows installation on a virtual machine instead (performance is beyond terrible but does the job, as long as I don't do anything too crazy, like look at it). QGroundControl is an excellent choice, can't wait to see the result.
Great ! - now that's great news - finally we will have a true multiplatform tool.
The MP is being merged with QGroundControl on QT as we speak. Teams are hard at work.
This does not help you, but I am unabel to reproduce the crash with planner 1.1.75 on Ubuntu 12.04
dpkg -s mono-runtime libmono2.0-cil libmono-winforms2.0-cil mesa-common-dev mesa-utils
Package: mono-runtime
Version: 2.10.8.1-1ubuntu2
Package: libmono2.0-cil
Version: 2.10.8.1-1ubuntu2
Package: libmono-winforms2.0-cil
Version: 2.10.8.1-1ubuntu2
Package: mesa-common-dev
Version: 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
Package: mesa-utils
Version: 8.0.1+git20110129+d8f7d6b-0ubuntu2
I'm running fresh install of 10.04 which is LT release so it has all he current updates. I'm not that keen on Unity for smaller note books or older computers. Mind you I didn't try it with VMware. How did you go with that?
It does work fine - it detects update each time, a bug I reported, and was fixed before - but it does run and work as expected.
As I posted before - I needed to install:
sudo apt-get install mono-runtime libmono2.0-cil libmono-winforms2.0-cil mesa-common-dev mesa-utils
seriously I cant get this to work in Ubuntu at all. It opens the console, but from there doesn't do anything at all. Wine wont even run its. It really not worth the fu(£1n9 around when there is so mush else the time needs to be spent on. I certainly don't want to be out in the field stuffing around with incompatibility issues and lag time on software
i flew my new crash quad last night ( I call it crash quad because I built it purely for testing the extremes on AC/APM ) but flew with my open pilot cc and its so easy!!!.. what a great system! I hate to rag APM and I like this as well and am awed by the magnificent development done on it, but OP really leaves it for dead for ease of use. Only draw back is it doesn't have autopilot yet and its so slow to develop. I often dream of the day that OP and AC join hands and then really make some great advancements in UAV.
Done :
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/issues/detail?id=530&th...
everybody who like Mono to get some priority, add a comment to it :)
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