Quote from Pietro on January 20, 2022, 11:16 pm

Quote from Arnold on January 20, 2022, 10:24 pm

Hi all,

I already got my LucaschessR working under linux... (Just need to grant access to my ttyUSB0 so I don't have to use sudo anymore... ;-))

Can somebody help me or point me towards the instructions for the installation of the Certabo Software for Linux?

Much appreciated!

Arnold

 

Here you are https://github.com/CERTABO/Release-4.1-BT/tree/master

Just clone repo install dependencies and run.

Remember to authorise the UCI engines

sudo chmod +x engine

Should be straight forward, let us know enjoy 🙂

All the best

Pietro

 

 

 

Quote from Arnold on January 21, 2022, 12:23 pm

Hi Pietro,

I cloned the repository and it has downloaded into my home folder with name: "Release-4.1-BT"

The contents are 2 files and a .git folder....

There is also a zipfile on the github "Release-4.1-BT-master.zip" this contains a lot more files 😉 Do I need to download the zipfile also and if yes where do I put them?

Thanks in advance!

Arnold

Quote from Pietro on January 21, 2022, 7:58 pm

Hi Arnold

Probably you downloaded the repo as zip file in this case just unzip the file in the directory where you have .git folder and then install dependencies etc

Let us know if need more help 🙂

All the best

Pietro

Quote from Arnold on January 24, 2022, 7:50 pm

Hi Pietro,

I got it to work! It's not straightforwarded anymore due to the hardcoding of the version numbers in the requirementsfile..

It deserves a graphical installer IMHO!!

I wrote down my steps and attached it to this post... Feel free to use and or improve!

Hopefully it will help others!

Cheers,

Arnold

Thanks to @reintj for reviewing the document.

Quote from reintj on January 25, 2022, 11:13 am

Hi all,

May I hijack this forum post, or is it better to raise another post for this?

On linux the following issue arises when using the lichess plugin:

ERROR: simplejson is installed. The berserk lichess client will not work with simplejson. Please remove the module. Aborting.

Then the program stops working. The problem is, python3-simplejson is a ubuntu package and if uninstalled it seems like it will break the whole linux system?

Anyone having the same problem? Is there a workaround or simple fix?

Regards,

Reint.

PS: Sorry for hijacking this thread

Quote from Pietro on February 17, 2022, 10:21 pm

Hi Reint

Good evening i think i missed some post 🙁 sorry. Not it should not break the simplejson i think is installed by default but you can uninstall.

Uninstalling can bit bit nasty as does sometime not unistall with standard steps but you can follow those steps:

sudo apt-get remove python-simplejson

or

sudo apt-get remove python3-simplejson

depening if python is calling python3 checck with pip3 freeze after you did if it is installed

if it still does not start please do

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove python-simplejson

to uninstall the dependencies it should be enough otherwise try

sudo apt-get purge python-simplejson

this will clean the configuration try in the sequence.

All the best

Pietro

Quote from reintj on February 18, 2022, 2:33 pm

Hi Pietro,

Thank you for your reply. I was a bit hesitant with removing a package with such a long list of dependencies. But your suggestions worked like a charm.

# sudo apt remove python3-simplejson

# sudo apt autoremove

The board is now also working with Lichess and Linux.

Thank you,

Reint.

Quote from Michiel on February 18, 2022, 4:52 pm

Nice to collect user experiences like this.

So in both Ubuntu linux as well as Solus linux the Certabo client software (including online play at lichess)  is functioning, nice!