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Using WINE to run PlanePlotter on a Raspberry PiThese are first notes based on experiments in early 2021, with guidance from many on the PlanePlotter group, including Max France, Ian Chadwick and Joe Kinane - to whom many thanks. Some experience with Linux on a Raspberry Pi is assumed. This is a work in progress - comments and corrections
are very welcome!
Step 1 - Base Image - be sure to check if you already have WINE!A pre-made OS image for the Raspberry Pi (based on Buster) is available here: https://twisteros.com/ and I suggest you download, burn to a microSD card and install into your RPi. I used a Raspberry Pi 400 and a 32 GB SD card. It's ready for WINE to be installed. However: It may even be that WINE is already installed (I wish I had known to check this!). To check, type a command like:
from a Linux terminal. You may save yourself a lot of unnecessary work! If you already have WINE, proceed to installing PlanePlotter.
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cd ~/Downloads wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/dists/buster/main/binary-i386/wine-devel-i386_6.1~buster-1_i386.deb wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/dists/buster/main/binary-i386/wine-devel_6.1~buster-1_i386.deb dpkg-deb -xv wine-devel-i386_6.1~buster-1_i386.deb wine-installer dpkg-deb -xv wine-devel_6.1~buster-1_i386.deb wine-installer sudo mv wine-installer/opt/wine-devel ~/wine sudo ln -s ~/wine/bin/wine /usr/local/bin/wine sudo ln -s ~/wine/bin/winecfg /usr/local/bin/winecfg sudo ln -s ~/wine/bin/wineserver /usr/local/bin/wineserver wine reboot
This is a very useful part of WINE allowing to you to install some other programs which we may need. We download it, make it executable, and copy it to the local executable directory.
We need some other stuff which works under Linux, for example:
At this point, a final test was suggested, but it failed for me:
Needs more detail!
Using a Web browser (does it matter which?) locate and download PlanePlotter. You can find Internet Explorer in the WINE installation, but I can't recall where it downloads to.
Alternatively you could wget to download the current executable to a directory of your choice:
Please note that the file name of the "setup.exe" will change for every new release, so be sure to check the filename before downloading. Perhaps the browser download rather than the "wget" method is preferable for that reason.
You then have a "setup.exe" (here: planeplotter6_5_1_9.exe) which you can run from the terminal by:
I found issues when trying to use the Linux command-line to navigate to directories with spaces, so when installing I used "LogFiles" rather than "Log files" and so forth.
You will find PlanePlotter here: /home/pi/.wine/drive_c/pi/PlanePlotter.exe
I made a desktop shortcut to run PlanePlotter, but I would think there is a better way. You register and authenticate PlanePlotter in the usual way.
Works exactly as expected.
The Registration process didn't work as the browser wasn't brought up, so I did the process manually.
Authentication didn't bring up the appropriate dialog, so I asked for Bev's help with that.
Tilde key difficult to access - fixed.
Resolved - see above.
Ian Chadwick notes: To my surprise, when I used the command line to view the directories within cd /home/pi/.wine/drive_c/COAA/PlanePlotter/ it showed the Log files folder as Log\ files. Ditto the Chart files and Image files.
But, by then typing cd /home/pi/.wine/drive_c/COAA/PlanePlotter/Log\ files/ into the command line, it put me straight into the Log files folder.
Kenneth Guida notes: The \ in the file name Log\ File is a Linux indicator that the space in the name is not a delimiter but part of the file/path name.
Another way to perform that is to say 'Log File'
You may find support for scripting is already installed. To check:
You should get a dialog box with the message you wrote. If scripting isn't installed:
Outline view appears expanded horizontally.
Neither Help, Home page nor Help, Online Help work, so
something's not triggering the URL for those programs.
Neither the BaseStation.sqb nor the FlightRoutes.sqb work
(the files aren't unzipped or renamed).
However, you can Right-click Extract within the File Manager, and rename the
routes database.
Navigate from the Menu icon at the top left of the screen:
Marc Delince kindly pointed to: https://superuser.com/questions/290115/how-to-change-console-keymap-in-linux
You can create a desktop shortcut with a specially named file in your Desktop
directory.
You don't have a "desktop" directory? It has to start with a
Capital D!
cd Desktop nano PlanePlotter.desktop
Contents of the file:
[Desktop Entry] Name=PlanePlotter Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/pi/.wine" wine "C:\Tools\COAA\PlanePlotter\PlanePlotter.exe" Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path=/home/pi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Tools/COAA/PlanePlotter/ Icon=/home/pi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Tools/COAA/PlanePlotter/PlanePlotter.ico
Now make it executable:
chmod +x PlanePlotter.desktop
and double-click to run. If you don't have a suitable icon, omit the Icon=... line. I extracted one from PlanePlotter.exe using IconsExtract v1.47.
After creating a desktop shortcut, and double-clicking it, you may get the message:
This text file "seems to be an executable script..."
Here's the fix:
File manager
Edit
Preferences
General
Do not ask option on executable launch
Take out the tick
From: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=248380
Some of the fonts seem OK, but others are rather spindly - looking like the font smoothing is either absent or incorrectly applied. Please let me know if there is a proper fix for this, but in the meantime I used the winecfg command (from a Linux terminal session) to reset at least some of the fonts. Not being a fan of "themes" I haven't yet tried that.
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