Installing Ride v1.7.4 on Raspberry Pi Zero with Raspbian is a Challenge, especially during preperation and installation of wxPython for pi Zero
Base setup from pi Zero:
- Rasbian buster lite
- python 3.7x
Do SW update before installing :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt get dist-upgrade
Do Install pip3 for my pi zero:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
Prepare installation before installing wxPython on pi Zero:
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev build-essential swig python-dev libwebkit-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev checkinstall freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libgtk2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgconf2-dev libglapi-mesa libosmesa6 libglu1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa mesa-common-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential tk-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6-dev libdb5.3-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install python3.7-dev
sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxtools wx2.8-i18n libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install gtk+-3.0 gtk+3.0-dev
sudo pip3 install pathlib2
Now install wxPython, it can take long (+/- 24 Hours) by pi Zero!
sudo pip3 install wxPython
If it’t passed you can install Ride !
sudo pip3 install --upgrade robotframework-ride
You can start the Ride now as remote sessions:
Ride.py &