OpenCPN Version 5.8.0 Released

[Moo]

Originally Posted by yachtvalhalla

Using Firefox and now cannot open the OpenCPN website!


HELP!

Just click the learn more link and you can continue after accepting the warning.

[yachtvalhalla]

Originally Posted by Moo

Just click the learn more link and you can continue after accepting the warning.

That wasn't presented and all OK now. Might have been a busy site with the new release.
Terry

[Moo]

Originally Posted by yachtvalhalla

That wasn't presented and all OK now. Might have been a busy site with the new release.
Terry

Its on your screenshot !

[verkerkbr]

Hi Dave,

tested the NMEA2000 serial input with the Actisense NGT1. Works well on all my Flatpak OpenCPN systems.

With the Canable I run in the same problems as before. It is not caused by OpenCPN but by Flatpak locking the Can connections. Can0 seems not available in OpenCPN.

If I start with: flatpak run --allow=canbus org.opencpn.OpenCPN

then is works with can0. There must be a way to make the can available by default on Flatpak.

Regards,


Bram

[Franziska]

Hi Dave, any idea when the radar Plug-in will work with 5.8?

I do not see it in the Plug-in catalog as of yet and our B&G is directly plugged into the laptop (no other display) and worked under 5.7.

ANSWER :-) , JUST SAW AT HAKAN'S THREAD THAT IT WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON AND THAT THERE IS A BETA AVAILABLE ALREADY.


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[jeff.stueve]

Having some trouble on a fresh install of what I believe should be 5.8.0 on my rpi 4, 32-bit raspian, buster. So followed the OpenCPN instructions for rpi 2/3. No indication of any problems until the very end, and here's what I get from terminal:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install opencpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
opencpn : Depends: libglew2.0 (>= 1.12.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: xcalib but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: opencpn-doc but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-amd64 but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-arm64 but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-arm32 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Jeff

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by jeff.stueve

Having some trouble on a fresh install of what I believe should be 5.8.0 on my rpi 4, 32-bit raspian, buster. So followed the OpenCPN instructions for rpi 2/3. No indication of any problems until the very end, and here's what I get from terminal:
....

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
opencpn : Depends: libglew2.0 (>= 1.12.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: xcalib but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: opencpn-doc but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-amd64 but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-arm64 but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-arm32 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Jeff

I have a RasPi 4 - 8GB and tried to work with it with Debian “bullseye” x64 (sorry ARM64), from my point of view it was a real pain in the ...., I was able to work with OPCN but after investigating because any program installed said something regarding the "user permissions".

I did work it after quite a lot of job, after being decades of being ms-dos/windows user, so too many terminal handwriting codes about "opening" writing permission of folders.

well something that would be useful for you, try the version bullseyes x64 ARM64, because as far as I see, there are some errors in your log saying that not able to install arm64 libraries.

by the way I'm working with windows 11 arm64 with my RasPi 4, sorry I cannot spend ages to make working it in Debian, I know that will be some drivers still not available for windows but the machine is working.

[jeff.stueve]

I'd been running OpenCPN for a good while, but then yesterday a problem developed where it wouldn't launch, even in safe mode. Kept crashing. Couldn't get an update to work, so I uninstalled it entirely using "sudo apt remove".

So that's why I consider this to be a "fresh" install. Up until now haven't had any troubles to speak of. Just wish I could get this new version to install.


Jeff

[verkerkbr]

Originally Posted by Corsair63

I have a RasPi 4 - 8GB and tried to work with it with Debian “bullseye” x64 (sorry ARM64), from my point of view it was a real pain in the ...., I was able to work with OPCN but after investigating because any program installed said something regarding the "user permissions".

I did work it after quite a lot of job, after being decades of being ms-dos/windows user, so too many terminal handwriting codes about "opening" writing permission of folders.

well something that would be useful for you, try the version bullseyes x64 ARM64, because as far as I see, there are some errors in your log saying that not able to install arm64 libraries.

by the way I'm working with windows 11 arm64 with my RasPi 4, sorry I cannot spend ages to make working it in Debian, I know that will be some drivers still not available for windows but the machine is working.

You don't need ages to install a RPI4 OS. Install the OS. Install the flatpak enviroment and take the 5.8 flatpak version.

Then have most of the plugins allready available.

Works her with input from NMEA2000 or GPS mouse.

See attached image. Input from a Canable canbus board en Ais data via the SignalK server from another system. Here running several nieuw OS systems. Of course 64 bits.
This version is Fedora Rawhide.

Charts are from O-charts with Oesenc plug for the dongle.


Bram

[bdbcat]

jeff....
This is the key point:
opencpn : Depends: libglew2.0 (>= 1.12.0) but it is not installable


Not sure why your armhf/buster load of Raspian does not find libglew.
You may workaround by manually installing libglew.
1. Download from here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uypbs3z2nq...armhf.deb?dl=0
2. Install by:
$sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/libglew2.1_2.1.0-4_armhf.deb


Then you should be able to update OpenCPN.


Please report results.
Thanks
Dave

[jeff.stueve]

Dave,

Gave that a try, but seems like the same problem persists. I'll copy everything from Terminal to show my steps. Maybe there's something else nefarious happening that I'm not savvy enough to perceive?

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/libglew2.1_2.1.0-4_armhf.deb
Selecting previously unselected package libglew2.1:armhf.
(Reading database ... 164127 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libglew2.1_2.1.0-4_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libglew2.1:armhf (2.1.0-4) ...
Setting up libglew2.1:armhf (2.1.0-4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10+rpt2+rpi1+deb10u1) ...
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install dirmngr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dirmngr is already the newest version (2.2.12-1+rpi1+deb10u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 163 not upgraded.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C865EB40
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.Va7PSug7vW/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C865EB40
gpg: key 67E4A52AC865EB40: "Launchpad PPA for OpenCPN" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public InRelease
Hit:2 Index of /debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 Index of /raspbian buster InRelease
Get:4 https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/open...r/deb/raspbian buster InRelease [4,877 B]
Hit:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Fetched 4,877 B in 2s (3,007 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install opencpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
opencpn : Depends: libglew2.0 (>= 1.12.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: xcalib but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: opencpn-doc but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-amd64 but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-arm64 but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-sglock-arm32 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by verkerkbr

You don't need ages to install a RPI4 OS. Install the OS. Install the flatpak enviroment and take the 5.8 flatpak version.

Then have most of the plugins allready available.

Works her with input from NMEA2000 or GPS mouse.

See attached image. Input from a Canable canbus board en Ais data via the SignalK server from another system. Here running several nieuw OS systems. Of course 64 bits.
This version is Fedora Rawhide.

Charts are from O-charts with Oesenc plug for the dongle.


Bram

Hi Bram,

I was able to work with the RasPi but after a real nightmare, also I installed before the flatpak option, but I don´t know why it installed me a previous version, sure that was my fault, so I had to do it manually and after a "furious fighting" with RasPi I was able, after that was my last attempt, I format it and started with w11 ARM64, but only working with it just as a hobby.

my productions computers are, on board Windows 11 Pro ARM64 and safety/spare Tablet Surface Pro X same W11Pro ARM64, and really happy the performance with OCPN.

FTB I'm running away like hell of Like-Linux versions, and maybe I would be wrong but I consider myself too old to re-start my brain

[bdbcat]

jeff...


My error. Please try this one:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/20ijcaev5n...armhf.deb?dl=0

2. Install by:
$ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/libglew2.0_2.0.0-5_armhf.deb

Sorry

Dave

[Alfange]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

ZUZA....
Will you please post the OCPN logfile of a failing instance of OCPN58?


Thanks
Dave

Dave

I saved the opencpn folder from ProgramData to a different location, and simply completely uninstalled OpenCPN, cleaned the computer, restarted, and installed version 5.8 as a completely new installation.
The program opened normally, but by putting only the directories of the charts in the .ini file, and that I already used in the previous version (5.6.2) but I did not change anything else and did not install any plugin, but even so the program does not show the buttons of the menus and therefore the problem is not linked to the plugins, perhaps the absence of some, but this I really don't know, since I installed from zero.

The directories of the charts are exclusive folders for this purpose, so simple address on the computer, so...

[jeff.stueve]

Thank you, Dave! That did the trick!

I'm glad I was able to get this to work. I saw the note about the problem with 64-bit running headless, and wanted to avoid that problem by sticking with Buster. I have a monitor at my navstation, but I like being able to use VNC viewer on an ipad in the cockpit.

Looking forward to this version! Thanks so much!


Jeff