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ArdupilotMegaPlanner runs natively on ubuntu linux with the program mono

Posted by Michael Springer on May 16, 2011 at 7:30pm

3689407389?profile=originalArdupilotMegaPlanner 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!!

 

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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.

 

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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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  • Søren Kuula February 5, 2012 at 12:01am

    Hi,

    I am generally unable to write any settings at all from Mission Planner under Linux/mono. No error messages, there is just nothing changed in the APM. I can write OK under Windows.

    Did somebody else have this problem and maybe solved it too?

    Are the M P sources available?

    Regards, Soren

  • Andreas Gazis December 26, 2011 at 6:37am

    Hello guys, I have problems running APM planner on mono (also posted here on Dec 23 2011 on the wiki).

    Problem is, APM Planner runs fine except for the Firmware tab which shows a black screen under both the default mono (2.6 I think) and the 2.10 version.

    I am using kubuntu 11.04. I upgraded mono to 2.10 following the instructions here. In a fit of desperation, I also installed mesa-utils, libglw1-mesa-dev, libegl1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libgles1-mesa-dev, libgles2-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev and libopenvg1-mesa-dev

    Still, no joy, firmware tab firmly refuses to show anything. Has anyone else had this problem?

  • Jonathan Simmons November 28, 2011 at 11:19am

    @John Church  What worked for me was installing mesa-dev and mesa-utils

    Hope it works,

    Jonathan

  • Developer
    Michael Oborne September 11, 2011 at 3:37pm

    Arthur, try mono 2.8,

  • Michael Springer May 17, 2011 at 2:54pm
    yes it is. I haven't tried gnome 3 out yet so i don't know if it's better, and as far as I know unity was built on gnome 3 so many of the features should still be there. I do like it, it's perfect for my netbook (fast, compact, simple, easy to use, the meta search rocks I use it to launch my apps more than the icon short cut, and properly full screens the programs I'm running) the only draw backs I have ran into is from time to time I can't remember a apps name and the old menu bar would be nice to have, the new one is organised different and slower. if you decide to try it out install the new one for 11.04!!! the old one was absolutely horrible it was slow and unfinished
  • Agustin Monteverdi May 17, 2011 at 1:28pm

    multiplataform...great!

    hey is that unity?

    if ->is it better than gnome 3?

     

  • Rhett Walker May 17, 2011 at 1:17pm
    This is GREAT! thanks man i can now run mission planner on linux
  • Sebastian S. May 17, 2011 at 6:02am
    That is absolute cool! But I had to install the mono-complete package first (Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal). Thanks for the hint!
  • Michal Rusina May 17, 2011 at 3:15am
    this is soo great!
  • Developer
    Michael Oborne May 17, 2011 at 3:11am
    i did release a pkg file for mac that should work, you will need to download it and use the update function though to get it to the latest build.
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