Idle Q - AvareX on Linux anyone?

[John W 4sba]

This is a low priority question that I'm hoping won't be a distraction
for the Dev Team. I have no real use for the Linux version of AvareX
yet, but am curious how it looks on that platform.

I can't get it to run. Possibly due to the obsolete laptop I'm trying
it on. Maybe I've incorrectly assumed that the AvareX file is an
installer, and I need to research how to manually install it? Have any
of you using Linux with classic Avare (SIMs, AutoPilots, etc.) installed
and run AvareX Linux yet? If so, might you be willing to post a step by
step?

Here's a rough outline of my attempt on an old MacBook just now, in case
anyone's done it and has suggestions:
System: Ubuntu 22.04.4LTS MATE 1.26.0 - Linux 5.15.0-101 x86_64 -
30G free on SSD
3.6G RAM - Core2 Duo P8600 @ 2.4GHz x 2 - Nvidia
NVAF GPU
Steps:
*sudo apt install sqlite3
*GitHub download AvareX Linux - ...artifacts/1389596017 (#100)
*Extract all zip files within zip files in Downloads directory
*Launch file named AvareX (-rwxr-xr-x)
*Large gray screen appears with text on top: avaremp
*No network activity, no significant CPU activity change
*System Monitor app reports: systemd AvareX Sleeping

[Jeffrey Ross]

Yes I have it running under Linux, I'm using Fedora but all Linux
variants should be similar

Download the Linux version of the software and extract the
"master-linux.zip" then extract the "master-linux.zip" file into a
directory, I use ~/avarex, you will then end up with two directories,
data and lib and an executable called "AvareX"

Next before running the AvareX you need to install sqlite3, once this is
installed you should be good to go.  One thing I ran into is AvareX is
looking for libsqlite3.so which didn't exist in my distribution but
libsqlite3.so.0 did so I simply created a symbolic link "
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so -> /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0 " and it worked fine.

to run the software I did -

    cd ~avare
    ./AvareX

I did get warnings about the GPS which I don't have connected.

Jeff

[Simon Roberts]

Yup, it was easy to install, and seems to work fine here. There's no GPS on this machine right now, and I'm finding the UI a bit unfamiliar. Obviously, you can't pinch/spread to zoom the display and I haven't worked out if there are keys for this. I did find that double-clicking zooms in a stepwise fashion, and "center" resets that back to default, but that mode is a bit clunky. I expect there's something smoother that this, but it's not been a high priority for me to investigate this yet.

[David Durst]

Mouse with wheel you can scroll the wheel up and down and it will zoom in and out - At least on Windows it works that way