Changes on the Plug-in Download page & new plug-in packages

[nohal]

Hi all...
Thanks to the great effort of Sean and Rick, we now have improved packages available for several plug-ins, with more to come as time allows.
The plug-ins using the new packaging system don't need manual copying to the plugin folder anymore and come with a graphical installer, similar to the one of OpenCPN itself on Windows and in the distribution native packages on Linux. All the translations and data are also bundled, so no more manual work should be needed.


On Windows, simply download the installer from the "Setup package" link, run it and follow it's instructions (example screenshots attached bellow)

On Linux distributions similar to Ubuntu (Debian, Mint, Crunchbang etc.) download the DEB package corresponding to your processor architecture and install either using your favorite GUI tool or from the command line using

sudo dpkg -i XXX.deb

where XXX.deb is the name of the package you downloaded.

On distributions like Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuSE, download the RPM package and install either using your favorite GUI tool or from the command line using

rpm -Uvh XXX.rpm

where XXX.deb is the name of the package you downloaded.
In case your system is not using any of these packaging systems, you can still get the .tar.bz2 package and install the files manually.

It is pretty wise to get rid of the previously manually installed plug-ins of the same type prior to using the new packages to avoid having several instances of the same plug-in available at the same time.

We still don't provide packages for Mac OS X for different reasons, but they will come, believe me

Please let me know in case you observe any problems, broken links etc.

Pavel

[houlejm]

Pavel

Good idea. It simplifies the installation.

For linux, why not put them in the OpenCPN PPA's. It would be even easier

Thanks for the good work

Jean-Marie

[nohal]

JM...
The Launchpad PPA can build just x86 debs for us - no ARM, no RPMs, no tarballs. Although it could be done, I decided to invest the time it would take to build the needed toolchain into the "ultimate solution" covering all the platforms, but it is still a couple of sleepless nights away...

Pavel

[seandepagnier]

Will you be cross compiling everything? I'm still trying to figure out how to cross compile wxWidgets for arm under amd64 linux. The other one is to cross compile for i386. This should be easy but I don't have an internet connection. Before I used a chroot environment which works, but uses a lot more disk space.

[nohal]

Sean...
I will probably not cross-compile and either use chroot or complete qemu VMs, which is needed for Windows anyway. And hopefully a real Mac for OS X builds as virtualizing it is a real PITA on the HW I have available myself (another reason for VMs as the same script will handle it)...

Pavel

[seandepagnier]

If anyone figures out any new ways to cross compile it would be interesting. I don't think it would be too difficult for linux to linux systems.

Cross compiling with mingw for windows under linux works well.

[SethDart]

Hi guys,

Sorry, I was AFK for a while: gone sailing in Scotland :-D

I can build rpms for all currently supported Fedora 32-bit & 64-bit and include it in my Fedora/CentOS repo
I'm also building OpenCPN for epel-6-x86_64 (CentOS/RHEL) and could do it for others versions if needed.

I've a dedicated chroot build system for each of these. I can include any package in my build process.

ARM untested but should work. Is there any need for ARM rpms?

Regards,
Jean-Eudes

[seandepagnier]

Are you cross compiling for arm? It cannot work in a chroot.

[nohal]

Originally Posted by SethDart

Hi guys,

Sorry, I was AFK for a while: gone sailing in Scotland :-D

I can build rpms for all currently supported Fedora 32-bit & 64-bit and include it in my Fedora/CentOS repo
I'm also building OpenCPN for epel-6-x86_64 (CentOS/RHEL) and could do it for others versions if needed.

I would be particularly interested in knowing whether the RPMs we provide for the plug-ins now actually work on all the Fedora versions... At least the ones I built were produced on Debian Wheezy...

ARM untested but should work. Is there any need for ARM rpms?

I honestly have no idea if someone uses Fedora's ARM version. But if it works, at some point someone probably will.

Pavel