Installation of PX4 ground station Qgroundcontrol under Ubuntu

1. Introduction
It is believed that many of the friends who play open source drones have a drone on their hands, rather than just staying in theoretical learning and program learning. Flying their own assembled UAV is fun, then this article introduces the installation of the essential ground station software Qgroundcontrol to play UAV, of course, can also use Mission Planner ground station. QGC and both can be installed under Windows. This article describes the installation of QGC under the Ubuntu environment under Linux.

2. Installation

For download and installation, refer to the official tutorial ddownload and install.

(1) before downloading and installing Qgroundcontrol, you need to download a software: Qgroundcontrol.appimage.

Install using the terminal commands:

chmod +x./qgroundcontrol.appimage. /qgroundcontrol.appimage  Double Click Run)

(2) Download Qgroundcontrol compressed package, you can download it on the website http://qgroundcontrol.com
The download package name is: qgroundcontrol.tar.bz2

Unpack the Tarball

tar jxf qgroundcontrol. Tar

Installing additional Packages

sudo Install espeak libespeak-dev libudev-dev libsdl1. 2-dev

The above installation is version 1.2, install the latest version of 2.0 can also (recommended to install the latest version).

(3) operation

There are two ways to run QGC, one is to double-click Qgroundcontrol. Appimage, it can be opened, the second is the command line open, the command line is as follows:

CD Qgroundcontrol. /qgroundcontrol-start. SH

I can open it in the first way, and the second command line can also be opened.

In this way, the QGC ground station can be opened with the above operation.

3. Conclusion

This article introduced the Linux,ubuntu installed QGC ground station, hope can help to PX4 enthusiasts, if you encounter any problems, welcome to my blog under the message.

I have referred to the 51676133 post in the installation process to express my thanks. As I refer to the previous blog post, the installation is a poor step, so write this blog post, this article is equivalent to the content of the reference blog is updated.

Installation of PX4 ground station Qgroundcontrol under Ubuntu