[Coco] Drive Wire Light UI

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Fri Aug 24 17:35:26 EDT 2018


Thanks It worked great for a beginner though the instructions might be 
better if
they started out with

  sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list     "nano friendler"
  sudo apt-get update                 "missing

Otherwise the instruvtions worked like a charm.

Thanks.

On 2018-08-19 10:36, Nathan Byrd wrote:
> By the way - it is possible to get the full version of DriveWire to run 
> on
> the raspberry pi.  I've been planning on making a video or instructions 
> for
> this, and I cuaurrently looking to create an alternative to the 
> DriveWire
> UI in general, but in the meantime below is a quick version of the
> instructions:
> 
> The problem is that Stretch does not include the correct version of
> libswt-gtk anymore, and it does not have the historical versions in the
> repo.  To fix this, we need to do a bit of a hack and add back in the
> wheezy apt-get sources temporarily:
> 
>>> sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> add the following line to the bottom of the file (note you can remove 
> it
> after everything is up and running if you want):
> 
> deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib 
> non-free
> rpi
> 
> 
> Run the following commands to install the correct version of 
> libswt-gtk:
> 
>>> sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-jni=3.8.0~rc4-1
> 
>>> sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java=3.8.0~rc4-1
> 
>>> sudo apt-get install libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni=3.8.0~rc4-1
> 
> Mark the packages as held so they don't get replaced in the future:
> 
>>> sudo apt-mark hold libswt-gtk-3-jni
> 
>>> sudo apt-mark hold libswt-gtk-3-java
> 
>>> sudo apt-mark hold libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 5:35 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>   On the Pi 1 - only the lite version of the GUI works.
>> 
>>   I used it a few years ago.
>> 
>>   Trying to set it up again using the command
>> 
>>   java -jar DW4UI.jar --liteui
>> 
>>   but it says that --liteui is not an option has support been droped ?
>> 
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