Help with new Rasberry Pi User to install OPENCPN

[keardou]

I have been trying to sucessfully install OPENCPN on my rasberry pi model B and have not had any sucess in getting it installed and runing. I have followed the instructions in the download section of the opencpn.org website for Wheezy 7.0 and it errors out when I update. The error message is that it is Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Can anyone assist? Do I have to compile the source code to get this to work on the Wheezy (2013-02-09-wheezy-rasberian)?

Thanks In Advance,
Doug K

[nohal]

Doug...
Raspi is an ARM machine, you will obviously have no luck with X86 packages on it. I'm not aware of any downloadable debs for ARM, so your best bet is to compile from source. Most of Compiling - Linux | Official OpenCPN Homepage should apply on ARM as well. Also Step 4 of Building on Motorola Xoom | Official OpenCPN Homepage should probably be more or less relevant for you, although targeting Squeeze.

Pavel

[conachair]

Originally Posted by keardou

I have been trying to sucessfully install OPENCPN on my rasberry pi model B and have not had any sucess in getting it installed and runing. I have followed the instructions in the download section of the opencpn.org website for Wheezy 7.0 and it errors out when I update. The error message is that it is Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Can anyone assist? Do I have to compile the source code to get this to work on the Wheezy (2013-02-09-wheezy-rasberian)?

Thanks In Advance,
Doug K

Have a look here....

http://www.agurney.com/raspberry-pi/pi-chart

[Verezano]

Either that or just follow the compile for linux instructions like Pavel pointed out. Worked fine for me.

But be aware that de pi is limited on resources. I own one of the first model Bs with only 256mb of memory, so I reduced the amount of memory used by the gpu in the /boot/config.txt file by setting gpu_mem=32 and set the overclocking the medium according to the overclocking table in the config.txt file.
This way opencpn works reasonable well.

[conachair]

Originally Posted by Verezano

Either that or just follow the compile for linux instructions like Pavel pointed out. Worked fine for me.

But be aware that de pi is limited on resources. I own one of the first model Bs with only 256mb of memory, so I reduced the amount of memory used by the gpu in the /boot/config.txt file by setting gpu_mem=32 and set the overclocking the medium according to the overclocking table in the config.txt file.
This way opencpn works reasonable well.

Compiling takes a while but at least it takes care of the dependencies for you.

I couldn't zoom without crashing using cm93 charts before adding the lines..

/boot/config.txt framebuffer_depth=32 framebuffer_ignore_alpha=1

These might just be needed for cm93 charts, what charts are you using?

ta

[Verezano]

I'm using cm93 too and experienced crashes as well when overzooming.
I'll try this option, but for the real work on board I bought a 1.2GHz dual core Pandaboard ES with 1gb memory.

[armido]

Verezano,

I can't say this is going to apply in every case, but the following symbols if enabled in the vector chart settings caused OpenCPN to terminate (crash) at certain more detailed zoom levels.

Try unselecting them and see if it makes a differenc on your machine.

Obstruction
Traffic seperation scheme, lane part
Wreck

armido