ccourson / xarm-dev

Ubuntu package to set up Ubuntu to use the Python hidusb module in order to connect to the Lobot xArm. Installation of xarm-dev loads Ubuntu dependencies. It also includes a tool to initialize a Python development environment and load Python dependencies. In other words, xarm-dev takes the work out of setting a Python development environment for working with the xArm.

xarm-dev for Ubuntu

xarm-dev is a package to set up Ubuntu to use the Python hidusb module in order to connect to the Lobot xArm. Installation of xarm-dev loads Ubuntu dependencies. It also includes a tool to initialize a Python development environment and load Python dependencies. In other words, xarm-dev takes the work out of setting a Python development environment for working with the xArm.

The following Ubuntu packages are loaded:

• python3
• python3-pip
• python3-venv
• python3-dev
• libusb-1.0-0-dev
• udev
• libudev-dev

Also installed is command xarm-dev.

usage: xarm-dev [--version] [--help] <[args]>

xarm-dev commands:

init:

• Initialize a project folder. Activate a virtual Python environment, upgrade setuptools and install hidapi package into virtual environment site packages.

xarm-dev init does the following:

• python3 -m venv env
• source env/bin/activate
• pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
• pip3 install hidapi

Installation

sudo apt install ./xarm-dev_0.1-ubuntu.deb

Uninstall

Package dependencies must be manually unloaded or all can be unloaded using apt-get's autoremove option.

sudo apt --purge remove xarm-dev

Build

dpkg-deb --build xarm-dev_0.1-ubuntu