Installing APM Planner 2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS

DaVinci Challenge

As instructional materials designer for the DaVinci Challenge, I need to provide clear and concise guidance on all aspects of building and operating drones including preparing ground control systems. With Microsoft as a sponsor of the DaVinci Challenge, I usually start by encouraging installing Mission Planner or APM Planner 2.0 on Windows, despite the difficult of installing unsigned drivers on Windows 8. For those participants with a MAC, guidance is to install APM Planner 2.0. Inevitably, a few students will arrive with a Ubuntu 14.04 as the only operating system. I can't help but smile, because I prefer Linux over Windows, but it does mean extra effort to guide the students through a more complex install process.

So to smooth out the process, one of our Interns created a shell script that checks the version of Ubuntu, installs that latest version of APM Planner 2.0, and creates a desktop icon -- all with a single command.

We are making this available to the public via our Guthub  

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  • This is a rather old script. Since then the installation of APM Planner 2.0 in most Linux flavors has been simplified. Try installing using thttp://ardupilot.org/planner2/docs/installation-for-linux.html#installation-for-linux

    Installing APM Planner for Linux — APM Planner 2 documentation
  • Hi,

    I was running the script provided and it execuited flawlessly until this point:

    (Reading database ... 268888 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack apmplanner.deb ...
    Unpacking apmplanner2 (2.0.15-7-gd94637c) ...
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apmplanner2:
    apmplanner2 depends on libasound2 (>= 1.0.16).
    apmplanner2 depends on libc6 (>= 2.4).
    apmplanner2 depends on libflite1.
    apmplanner2 depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1).
    apmplanner2 depends on libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1.
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5core5a (>= 5.2.0).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5opengl5-gles (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5qml5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5quick5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5quick5-gles (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5script5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5serialport5 (>= 5.1.0).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5sql5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5svg5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5test5 (>= 5.0.2).
    apmplanner2 depends on libqt5webkit5.
    apmplanner2 depends
    dpkg: error processing package apmplanner2 (--install):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1.1) ...
    Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
    Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
    Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
    Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    apmplanner2
    The user `abe' is already a member of `dialout'.

    abe@abe-Satellite-E55t-A:~$

    What should my next step be?

    Please advise,

    Abe

  • Hello Ronald,

    Nice. But now please do the same for Mission Planner. APM Planner right now isn't reliable enough...

    Sebastian

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