[Coco] Drive Wire Light UI

[Nathan Byrd]

Glad it worked for you, and thanks for the feedback! I need to write this
up and make a video or a webpage with instructions for this for others that
might be interested.

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:35 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:

>
> 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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>