Installing from a binary file in Gnu-Linux

In this section we see two installation methods from a binary file.

Installing the speckletool program from a snap

The snap files presented here can be installed in any gnu-linux distribution that support snaps, currently these are Ubuntu, ArchLinux, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSuse, OpenEmbedded, Yocto and OpenWrt. The snaps are packages auto supported so that these have all the information necessary to works, consequently the snaps files have a very large size.

Please attention:

• This snap program only can write data in the user HOME directory!
• The user manual can't be launched from the speckletool program but the console output of speckletool program shows the location of manual.
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To install the last version of the speckletool program from a snap file you need download it from here . All snap files have a filename with the name structure speckletool_X.Y.Z_ARCH.snap, where X.Y.Z is the version, and ARCH is the architecture, typically this value is i386 or amd64, to 32 or 64 bits architectures respectively.

Thus, the installation process of speckletool_1.2.1_amd64.snap, downloaded in the directory path ~/Downloads, will be:

    sudo snap install --dangerous ~/Downloads/speckletool_1.2.1_amd64.snap
    sudo snap connect speckletool:raw-usb
    sudo snap connect speckletool:camera

Uninstall the speckletool program from snap

    sudo snap remove speckletool

Run the application

To execute the speckletool program you need use the next command:

    speckletool