how to setup clustercontroller on ubuntu

[Marco Picard]

there was a receipe to install the clusterctrl on ubuntu, but i cant refind it, does any boy can telle me how

[Chris Burton]

Hi, 

there was a receipe to install the clusterctrl on ubuntu, but i cant refind it, does any boy can telle me how

https://8086.support/content/13/120/en/how-do-i-manually-install-clusterctrl.html

It hasn't been updated recently so if you have problems let me know which version of Ubuntu you're using and I can update it.

Chris.

[Marco Picard]

hello Chris, i tried to setup your receipe on Ubuntu server 25.04 preinstalled. version downloadable on ubuntu.releases. some error happened.

1. python3-libusb1 is not available on apt repository.

2. echo 'TYPE=c' >> /etc/default/clusterctrl not working , i had it manually 

3. raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0  not working , i installed raspberry-config, to enable I2C

4 at run time, RPi.GPIO was missing, i tried apt install python3-RPi.GPIO and it installed

5 on rerun time , some error happened about missing python3-libusb1

6 the clusterhat work to light on the pi zero, but (with sd) they didnt get in dhcp, then no ssh , I did not tried usbboot

hope this can help you to investigate about a new solution to make clusterhat working on any operating linux like system

if you permit, i suggest to build a bash file to automate the process.

thanks i will wait further developpement about this " ticket "

have a nice day

Marco

[Chris Burton]

Hi, 

1. python3-libusb1 is not available on apt repository.

2. echo 'TYPE=c' >> /etc/default/clusterctrl not working , i had it manually 

3. raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0  not working , i installed raspberry-config, to enable I2C

4 at run time, RPi.GPIO was missing, i tried apt install python3-RPi.GPIO and it installed

5 on rerun time , some error happened about missing python3-libusb1

I've added a section to the install instructions for Ubuntu 25.04 which should fix all of the above issues (tested on a Pi5 with ClusterHAT v2.5 and ClusterCTRL Single but there may still be issues with other devices).

 

6 the clusterhat work to light on the pi zero, but (with sd) they didnt get in dhcp, then no ssh , I did not tried usbboot

This is expected, the listed steps only install the clusterctrl tool (normally used to control ClusterCTRL USB devices).  To get an equivalent system to what's provided with the modified Raspberry Pi OS images you would need to make many changes. You can see what's done to the Raspberry Pi OS images in https://github.com/burtyb/clusterhat-image/blob/master/build/create.sh but the steps may not easily translate to Ubuntu.

Chris.

[Marco Picard]

It work , just create à netplan for à net bridge, add ethpi1 and others to bridges interfaces, thanks
Marco