Manual Linux-GPIB installation
If for some reason the packages from Vsevolod Kukol's PPA do not work for you (or you are running another distribution), GPIB support can be installed manually.
Note:
This will need to be re-done after every kernel upgrade.
(To be safe, reboot before and after.)
| 1) | sudo dpkg -r linux-gpib | (Ubuntu only: remove existing package, if reinstalling) |
| 2) | wget http://downloads.sf.net/sourceforge/linux-gpib/linux-gpib-3.2.16.tar.gz | (obtain source package) |
| 3) | tar xfz linux-gpib-3.2.16.tar.gz |
| 4) | cd linux-gpib-3.2.16/ |
| 5) | ./configure --prefix=/usr |
| 6) | make |
| 7) | sudo make install |
| 8) | sudo checkinstall | (Ubuntu only: Set "11 - Provides: libgpib0") |
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