#217 TiLP2 1.17 for Linux will not dump calculator ROM on Debian/Ubuntu-based systems

[John Gilbertson]

TiLP2 1.17 fails to send the ROM dumping program to the TI-89 and TI-92 Plus calculators with the following error: "ROM dumping program not found.
Cause: ROM dumps are not possible with this program because the tools needed to build the ROM dumpers are not included in Debian."

There are no issues with computer-calculator connectivity via TI-Black Link.

In this case, sending an already-built ROM dumper to the calculator instead of trying to build one from scratch might be a better way to go for now.

[John Gilbertson]

My OS is Linux Mint 17 Qiana 32-bit (Ubuntu Trusty-based).

[Lionel Debroux]

Sending an already-built ROM dumper is precisely what upstream libticalcs does, when it's built through the script provided on the official website ( http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/download/install_tilp.sh ) :)
What you're seeing is purely a Debian policy and packaging matter: pre-built ROM dumpers are explicitly patched out from the libticalcs2 Debian package.

You need to either compile libti*/tilp yourself, which is easy using the aforementioned script (it prints the build dependencies on the screen at the beginning), or put copies of the standalone ROM dumper files into /usr/share/libticalcs2 for Debian's patched libticalcs2 package to find them.
See the debian/patches/ticalcs2-external-rom-dumpers.patch file in Debian's local modifications file (at the time of this writing, http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libticalcs/libticalcs_1.1.8+dfsg2-2.debian.tar.gz ) for the expected file names and their contents (hex arrays).