Recent changes to Robotiq Sensor User Interface

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:17:42 -0000

--- v21
+++ v22
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@

 #### libgl1-mesa-glx Package Error

-Some users may have troubles completing the installation process because of a libgl1 error such as shown below: 
+Some users might have troubles completing the installation process because of a libgl1 error such as shown below: 

 ~~~~~~
 [xxxx@yyyy] $ sudo gdebi robotiqsensorui_1.0-1_i386.deb               [/tmp]

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:13:10 -0000

--- v20
+++ v21
@@ -56,12 +56,13 @@
 ~~~~~~

 2) Then, depending on your system's architecture, download the appropriate version of RobotiqSensorUI Debian package:
-      (for i386 architecture OR:
+      (for i386 architecture), OR:
         (for amd64 architecture)

 Save the package in a folder (e.g.: /home/username/Downloads/).

-3) Use gdebi to install the software:
+
+3) Use gdebi to install the software, for example:

 ~~~~~~
 sudo gdebi /home/username/Downloads/robotiqsensorui_1.0-1_i386.deb

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:10:19 -0000

--- v19
+++ v20
@@ -55,8 +55,11 @@
 sudo apt-get install gdebi
 ~~~~~~

-2) Then, depending on your system's architecture, download the appropriate version of RobotiqSensorUI Debian package at:  or 
-  and save it in a folder (e.g.: /home/username/Downloads/).
+2) Then, depending on your system's architecture, download the appropriate version of RobotiqSensorUI Debian package:
+      (for i386 architecture OR:
+        (for amd64 architecture)
+
+Save the package in a folder (e.g.: /home/username/Downloads/).

 3) Use gdebi to install the software:

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:07:49 -0000

--- v18
+++ v19
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
 sudo apt-get install gdebi
 ~~~~~~

-2) Then download the RobotiqSensorUI Debian package at:  and save it in a folder (e.g.: /home/username/Downloads/).
+2) Then, depending on your system's architecture, download the appropriate version of RobotiqSensorUI Debian package at:  or 
+  and save it in a folder (e.g.: /home/username/Downloads/).

 3) Use gdebi to install the software:

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:11:10 -0000

--- v17
+++ v18
@@ -65,6 +65,36 @@

 Installation should complete without error(s) as all the required packages will be installed together with robotiqsensorui. You can then start using your software! (see next section)

+#### libgl1-mesa-glx Package Error
+
+Some users may have troubles completing the installation process because of a libgl1 error such as shown below: 
+
+~~~~~~
+[xxxx@yyyy] $ sudo gdebi robotiqsensorui_1.0-1_i386.deb               [/tmp]
+Reading package lists... Done
+Building dependency tree        
+Reading state information... Done
+Building data structures... Done 
+Building data structures... Done 
+This package is uninstallable
+Cannot install 'libgl1-mesa-glx:i386'
+[xxxx@yyyy] $
+~~~~~~
+
+If this is your case, this means you don't have the implementation of the OpenGL API installed on your machine. We will have to install that in order to use the interface, since OpenGL is required for data visualization. Thus, to fix that minor issue, just type the following in a terminal:
+
+~~~~~~
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri
+~~~~~~
+
+Then, just re-install robotiqsensorui :
+
+~~~~~~
+sudo gdebi /home/username/Downloads/robotiqsensorui_1.0-1_i386.deb
+~~~~~~
+
+Installation should now have completed without error(s) as all the required packages will be installed together with robotiqsensorui. You can then start using your software! (see next section)

 ###**2.2 2nd way:** ***Using the source tarball***

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:07:37 -0000

--- v16
+++ v17
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+(*AUTHOR: Jean-Philippe Roberge*)
+
 **TABLE OF CONTENTS**

 [TOC]
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@

 ###**1.2 2nd way:** ***manual installation*** (hard way -- for expert users only)

-Expert users who wants to manually install these two library can do so by compiling and installing the libraries one by one.
+Expert users who wants to manually install these two libraries can do so by compiling and installing the libraries one by one.

 1) To get *libmgl.so.7.0.0* (mathgl library), you need to follow all the instructions given at the mathgl website : . Please note that at this moment there is no Linux pre-compiled version of the library, so you need to download the source code, and compile everything. The source files are compiled thorough the C-Make / Make build system, so the good side is that you will be able to compile a machine-specific and efficient library. The bad side is that the installation may become time-consuming if any trouble happens.

@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@

 ###**2.2 2nd way:** ***Using the source tarball***

-Using the source tarball required the users to make sure on its own that all the required packages (providing the required libraries) are installed prior to beginning of RobotiqSensorUI's installation procedure.
+Using the source tarball requires the user to make sure on its own that all the required packages (providing the required libraries) are installed prior to the beginning of RobotiqSensorUI's installation procedure.

 1) The following packages are needed by RobotiqSensorUI. Thus, make sure the following dependencies are resolved on your system:

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:35:13 -0000

--- v15
+++ v16
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@

 Before starting the installation procedure, one needs to make sure *libmgl.so.7.0.0* and *libQtSerialPort.so.1* libraries are installed on the computer. Since these libraries are not provided as part of automatically-downloadable packages (e.g. by using *sudo apt-get install* or *yum install*), we need to rely on another way to get these essential files. There are two different ways to achieve this:

-###**1st way:** ***automatic installation*** (easy and recommended way)
+###**1.1 1st way:** ***automatic installation*** (easy and recommended way)

 This first method copy and paste pre-compiled versions of *libmgl.so.7.0.0* and *libQtSerialPort.so.1* as symbolic links in /usr/lib. This is not dangerous in any way as these versions of the libraries were compiled speficially for RobotiqSensorUI, they can run on either 32 and 64 bits system architecture, they are far from being system-critical and moreover they are over-writtable (in the rare case you already had a version of one of the library running on your computer). I suggest you use this method over the 2nd one, as it is more likely to make you save a significant load of work.

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@

-###**2nd way:** ***manual installation*** (hard way -- for expert users only)
+###**1.2 2nd way:** ***manual installation*** (hard way -- for expert users only)

 Expert users who wants to manually install these two library can do so by compiling and installing the libraries one by one.

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 2.0 Installation of RobotiqSensorUI
 -----------------------------------

-###**1st way:** ***Using debian package*** (easy and recommended way)
+###**2.1 1st way:** ***Using debian package*** (easy and recommended way)

 Debian packages are pretty easy to work with, as they contain not only the source code allowing binary-file generation, but also the explicit list of package(s) dependency.

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 Installation should complete without error(s) as all the required packages will be installed together with robotiqsensorui. You can then start using your software! (see next section)

-###**2nd way:** ***Using the source tarball***
+###**2.2 2nd way:** ***Using the source tarball***

 Using the source tarball required the users to make sure on its own that all the required packages (providing the required libraries) are installed prior to beginning of RobotiqSensorUI's installation procedure.

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:33:49 -0000

--- v14
+++ v15
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 Here, *sudo* is optional but may be required on some system to allow serial port communications.

-Problems and bugs
+4.0 Problems and bugs
 ----------------

 Contact: Jean-Philippe Roberge

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:33:29 -0000

--- v13
+++ v14
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@

 Before starting the installation procedure, one needs to make sure *libmgl.so.7.0.0* and *libQtSerialPort.so.1* libraries are installed on the computer. Since these libraries are not provided as part of automatically-downloadable packages (e.g. by using *sudo apt-get install* or *yum install*), we need to rely on another way to get these essential files. There are two different ways to achieve this:

-**1st way:** ***automatic installation*** (easy and recommended way)
+###**1st way:** ***automatic installation*** (easy and recommended way)

 This first method copy and paste pre-compiled versions of *libmgl.so.7.0.0* and *libQtSerialPort.so.1* as symbolic links in /usr/lib. This is not dangerous in any way as these versions of the libraries were compiled speficially for RobotiqSensorUI, they can run on either 32 and 64 bits system architecture, they are far from being system-critical and moreover they are over-writtable (in the rare case you already had a version of one of the library running on your computer). I suggest you use this method over the 2nd one, as it is more likely to make you save a significant load of work.

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@

-**2nd way:** ***manual installation*** (hard way -- for expert users only)
+###**2nd way:** ***manual installation*** (hard way -- for expert users only)

 Expert users who wants to manually install these two library can do so by compiling and installing the libraries one by one.

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 2.0 Installation of RobotiqSensorUI
 -----------------------------------

-**1st way:** ***Using debian package*** (easy and recommended way)
+###**1st way:** ***Using debian package*** (easy and recommended way)

 Debian packages are pretty easy to work with, as they contain not only the source code allowing binary-file generation, but also the explicit list of package(s) dependency.

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 Installation should complete without error(s) as all the required packages will be installed together with robotiqsensorui. You can then start using your software! (see next section)

-**2nd way:** ***Using the source tarball***
+###**2nd way:** ***Using the source tarball***

 Using the source tarball required the users to make sure on its own that all the required packages (providing the required libraries) are installed prior to beginning of RobotiqSensorUI's installation procedure.

Robotiq Sensor User Interface modified by Jean-Philippe Roberge

Jean-Philippe Roberge — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:32:42 -0000

--- v12
+++ v13
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**TABLE OF CONTENTS**
+
 [TOC]

 Welcome to RobotiqSensorUI's Wiki page!
@@ -12,9 +14,11 @@

 **1st way:** ***automatic installation*** (easy and recommended way)

-Start by downloading the Install_Libs tarball at  and untar it in a folder (for example, /home/username/Downloads/Install_Libs. In that folder, you should find a folder named "Libs" and a bash script file named "Install_Libs.sh".
+This first method copy and paste pre-compiled versions of *libmgl.so.7.0.0* and *libQtSerialPort.so.1* as symbolic links in /usr/lib. This is not dangerous in any way as these versions of the libraries were compiled speficially for RobotiqSensorUI, they can run on either 32 and 64 bits system architecture, they are far from being system-critical and moreover they are over-writtable (in the rare case you already had a version of one of the library running on your computer). I suggest you use this method over the 2nd one, as it is more likely to make you save a significant load of work.

-Simply open a terminal and type:
+1) Start by downloading the Install_Libs tarball at  and untar it in a folder (for example, /home/username/Downloads/Install_Libs. In that folder, you should find a folder named "Libs" and a bash script file named "Install_Libs.sh".
+
+2) Simply open a terminal and type:

 ~~~~~~
 sudo bash /home/username/Downloads/Install_Libs/Install_Libs.sh