Manually install plugins on Ubantu

[ryantrollip]

OpenGL is giving me many issues on windows so I decided to install on Ubantu.

OpenCPN is installed and runs fine as far as I can tell.
apt install does not find the plugins said to be already there.
I have inspected the package list and only a few plugins are included but not any of the ones I use e.g. weather routing

Anyone know how to download and install the plugins manually on linux?

[houlejm]

Plugins are still not packaged for all releases of Ubuntu but older packages usually work with more recent releases.

Here is what I do:

I install OpenCPN and available plugins from the stadard depot:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu bionic main

in my case. then I switch depot to:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu xenial main

where the rest can be found.


If you prefer to install manually, You will find all of them in the OpenCPN repository

[ryantrollip]

Thanks much for the quick reply houlejm. Will give it a go.

[ryantrollip]

It worked!!
Thanks much...

Took me a while to figure out that dep wasn't a linux command, but something I had to add to a file, ran the installs and it updated fine.
Now to figure out how to get the charts working. sigh

Originally Posted by houlejm

Plugins are still not packaged for all releases of Ubuntu but older packages usually work with more recent releases.

Here is what I do:

I install OpenCPN and available plugins from the stadard depot:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu bionic main

in my case. then I switch depot to:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu xenial main

where the rest can be found.


If you prefer to install manually, You will find all of them in the OpenCPN repository