I have a Virtual Box with Ubuntu running. I want to study about Xserver so I need to know how can i get the source code of the Xserver and dependent libraries on my VM so that I can build and test the Xserver with some changes.
Could someone please guide me how should I start or any link where I can get some information.
Thanks.
try installing libgcrypt11-dev package first (11 may change depending on your repo)
You can download XServer source code from http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/Download?action=show&redirect=Mirrors
When you will run the config file, all the dependencies will be automatically listed.
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I am attempting to control my ur10e COBOT using ros2 but I have run into some issues.
I followed the steps of the ros2 install.
https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debians.html
Then I installed MoveIt2 Foxy. https://moveit.picknik.ai/foxy/doc/move_group_interface/move_group_interface_tutorial.html
Then downloaded UR-ros2-driver.
https://github.com/UniversalRobots/Universal_Robots_ROS2_Driver/tree/foxy
One of the issues I ran into with the UR-ros2-driver download was since I'm using foxy, I had to download the ros2-control-demos found in this link https://github.com/ros-controls/ros2_control_demos/tree/foxy
And after removing files in the /workspace/install folder I was able to launch the trajectory program and it ran great. The files I removed were...
(controller_manager_msgs)
(diffbot_description)
(hardware_interface)
(joint_limits)
(ros2_control_demo_hardware)
(rrbot_description)
Okay now after I bore you with all my startup steps, now lets get into some code. Once everything was downloaded, I first had to source my files in the terminal...
source /opt/ros/foxy/setup.bash
source ~/workspace/ros_ur_driver/install/setup.bash
Then I launched...
ros2 launch ur_bringup ur_control.launch.py ur_type:=ur10e robot_ip:=yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy use_fake_hardware:=true launch_rviz:=true
Which ran great and I was able to see my COBOT model in rviz2.
Next, in a second terminal, I launched...
ros2 launch ur_bringup test_joint_trajectory_controller.launch.py
And watched while the virtual COBOT moved to the command.
Now, to make a long story short I managed to get the my PC and the COBOT pendent connected by setting up the COBOT's IP address with my PC's IP address. No issue there.
WHERE MY PROBLEM IS
I went to launch the IP adjusted code...
ros2 launch ur_bringup ur_control.launch.py ur_type:=ur10e robot_ip:=192.168.56.2 launch_rviz:=true
And my model was stuck colorless and crunched up. I'm unable to interact with the virtual COBOT at this Error state. I do recall this happening with my fake_test version when I would forget to source it properly before I launched it. So I was thinking maybe I messed up in the way I sourced my files. Or maybe I didn't add the control_demo packages correctly. If someone could give my some pointers on this that'll be greatly appreciated.
Let me give a quick background of the work I do and then I'll explain the problem I am facing.
I am a software developer with more than 15+ years work experience. My work involves a lot of varied tasks:
data analysis using R, Python
development of web applications using Ruby on Rails, JS, etc.
building models using open source libraries
So far, I have been doing all this in my personal laptop (Ubuntu 18.04) and have faced no issues.
But I would soon need to start using a laptop provided by the organisation that I am working for. This org is not a IT company, it's a public body. They only use Windows (10) and don't provide admin access to anyone. It's very hard to get permission to install any kind of "approved" software. Just to give an example, they refused to install Chrome in my laptop as they wouldn't be able to control the updates.
So here's my problem - what do I do to work peacefully using their laptop? The primary reason I have to use the work laptop is that there are a lot of important documents kept in shared drives that are accessible only in their machines.
I have been looking at options like WSL or Hyper-V. But, before I put in a request to the IT team to get them to agree, I wanted to know a few things:
1) Which among WSL or Hyper-V would be the better approach for setting up the dev environment that I want?
2) IF I get the IT team to install WSL/HV, would I be able to set up everything else without having to go back to them for each software? Is there a way of secure local admin access these options would provide that will ease their concerns?
3) Is there some other way of setting up what I want?
If still applicable and actual I can share my solution:
If you should work on a windows machine where you don’t have administrative privileges, you can very easily make a portable R/Rstudio installation.
Download a recent version of R from the CRAN site and the recent version of RStudio. After download extract RStudio installation exec with 7Zip and copy files from $_OUTDIR to the desired location (in case you making an update, simply overwrite all files, that already exist). Your RStudio executable will be in
your-chosen-directory/bin/rstudio.exe
Then run CRAN-R installation, ignore the warning that you don’t have administrative privileges and go forward until installation will complete. Run RStudio, from the menu
Tools->Global Options
locate where your R installation is located.
If you performing an update (more recent version of R), copy all files from the library subfolder of the old R installation into new, but this time DON’T OVERWRITE! This operation vill preserves the packages you have installed in the previous version of R. After copying update all your packages from the RStudio window (Packages->Update). When the packages update process will end check which packages failed to update (You will see warning messages near them in the RStudio console). Remove these packages (write down names of failed packages and delete corresponding folders from library subfolder). For this, you will need to exit from RStudio. After deletion launch RStudio again and execute the packages install command in the RStudio console:
install.packages(c("package1", "package2", "package3"))
Congratulations, You are ready to go!
Reminder: Arch Linux uses pacman not apt-get
So I had an idea that I wanted to be able to leave my room and still see the progress of a download from my phone. I have looked for preexisting programs but have found none, so I decided to write a program myself.
the first step I took was reading the pacman documentation, to see if a function that could get the current download status was. I know there is a file I can check to see if exists
/var/lib/pacman/db.lck
which would tell me if there is a download
however I wanted to know more specifics on the download - progress and time remaining, name of download.
I have also found some GUI programs that use pacman and I was thinking of getting the source code to see if I could use some of that, but haven't found anything useful.
is there a way to find out the specifics about a current download, other than looking at the terminal that the command is running on?
Why overcomplicate things? Just install "screen" via pacman, and start the pacman update inside a screen.. And from your smartphone, use a SSH client to connect to your local machine and access that screen.
You could setup an ssh server on your host machine and connect to it using a terminal emulator on your phone (termux for example) and run whatever commands you like from there. This way you'll be able to view all terminal output from your phone quite seamlessly.
I know this question has been asked several times around the internet, but I have spent about a week trying to solve this problem with little luck.
I am trying to install JavaCommAPI (an archived Java package to allow communication with rs232) on a remote linux Ubuntu 11.0, 32-bit server in order to deploy a web project which I have developed on a local apache server on my windows PC.
The thing that puzzles me is, I am able to get the .war web project to deploy on a local apache server on a separate 32-bit LinuxMint16 PC by correctly placing the javax.comm.properties, comm.jar, and libSerialParallel.so files in their respective places.
I use System.getProperty("java.library.path"); in order to find the correct library path in order to install correct files.
On my LinuxMint16:
javax.comm.properties -- /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib
comm.jar -- /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/ext
libSerialParallel.so -- /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386
....works!
On my remote Ubuntu server I did the exact same for its reported library path
(for example: /usr/local/jdk/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/lib/javax.comm.properties ;
/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/lib/ext/comm.jar ;
/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/lib/i386/libSerialParallel.so)
...fails =(
Things of note: I added the needed apache jars and comm.jar to my libraries in Eclipse using the BuildPath wizard (right click on project --> Build Path-->add external jars) which points to local files on my PC which I obviously cannot use for a remote server which I am only accessing through command line. May this is affecting it somehow?
I tried to get error output (System.err) from the Java Console printed to a separate file for my remote server as that feedback was very helpful in getting all the files sorted on my LinuxMint PC.
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(pathName);
System.setOut(ps);
System.setErr(ps);
Which again, is oddly working beautifully to print the stream to a local .txt file on my LinuxMintPC but not to the one I designate on my remote ubuntu server.
I am really at a wits end here!! Am I mixing and matching appropriate versions of Systems prohibiting things to run smoothly? I am not sure how to proceed from here, if anyone has any insights I would die of happiness. Thanks
I needed to install OPEN JDK7 on my ubuntu, put files in appropriate library paths (as described above) and now it works.
I have a Fedora 10 64-bit server where I want to set up a nightly fresh install. The server is an exact clone of our customer's hardware and is used for running acceptance tests.
I would have liked to set this up using a virtual machine, but that's prohibited due to problems we've had with the different video and network drivers on the VM.
Here are the basic steps I need to automate:
Reinstall base Fedora 10
Update to the latest packages
Install additional packages (some of these come from the rpmfusion repository and our own private repository, so the repo files for these need to be added to the configuration)
Restore file system table to include a NAS mount
Restore users and home directories.
I've looked at using Kickstart to do the installation, but it looks as if that will only satisfy the first step above by just answering all the questions that you'd normally answer interactively during installation. Does anyone know of a more suitable tool that I could use ?
Edit: looks like respin could also be very useful here.
You could look at something like
fog - http://www.fogproject.org/
clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/
Basically these two applications are for the automated, unattended deployment of backup images to machines. They tend to be used in large enterprises but can be used for what you want to achieve.
I have only used clonzilla but fog can apparently run script after a pxe boot install. You could clone the device after all the steps above and just push down the image with a nightly reboot , you could use clonezilla or fog for this, or you could use fog with a script to apply the chances after a clean image has been installed on the server
Kickstart can do more using a %post section
Just wanted to elaborate to #BenBruscella's %post post.
Kickstart has a section where you can include or call up any post-install script to start after the main installation stuff is done.
With this you could easily do your package updates and mounts.