Installing Ride on Pi Zero

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 &

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