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Provide proper documentation support for Linux #101

Open nordfalk opened 11 months ago

nordfalk commented 11 months ago

Please do some effort to update your web page and documentation. As a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS user I have wasted much time trying to follow incomplete installation instructions.

For example, on https://www.mblock.cc/en/download/mlink/ there is just a .deb file, but no mention whatsoefter that you have to run

sudo mblock-mlink start to actually start it.

Even then, it isnt working, as by default some udev rules are installed of a device for braille, that uses the same USB id. So you have to follow https://forum.makeblock.com/t/not-recognize-mbot-in-gnu-linux-with-mlink/20113 and remove that rule

sudo mv /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-brltty.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-brltty.rules.disabled I wonder if you really want to actually have Linux support? If so (which I really really home!), please put some hours of effort in testing on newer major Linuxes and updating the documentation so we Linux users can get going relatively easy :pray: :pray: :pray:

DocMcSnappen commented 6 months ago

Thank you SO MUCH for this post!! I was going crazy trying to get my code to upload to the mBot! I was literally about to return the controller since it was absolutely unusable. This solved it for me though! I use the Linux Mint 21.3 (an Ubuntu Jammy fork). I would never have figured this out on my own. I assume many others have benefited from this without posting. But it's been 5 months since nordfalk posted this, and the relevant mBot instructions STILL haven't been updated. This is very disappointing, and makes me think twice before making other purchases from makeblock.