![]() ![]() Either that or run wine on an old Linux box. Garmin Connect Web Linux and Garmin Communicator Plugin smotron1 over 7 years ago Hi Sorry to post in this subforum, but it seems that there is no appropriate one. I would find it simpler and quicker to go get a nasty cheap second hand windows laptop and drag it out once a year to update my sat-nav. Call me a defeatist but I wouldn't spend the hours geeking my way through the problem. As ever with Linux even with the latest releases there is likely a bash workaround although this rather involved and not guaranteed to work on all machines. This problem will not occur if you are operating a 32 bit machine with older versions of Linux. ![]() This is not just restricted to this application, it will affect any installation of 32 bit games and applications at the moment until the Linux developers restore this functionality. To be fair on Garmin, Linux has rather let its users down when (inadvertently and effectively) withdrawing functionality for 32 bit installations with Wine which is why you will receive the -Failed to load libGL- error on the most modern distributions when trying to install Garmin Express. From their perspective this is unnecessary (for now) because Windows will recognise both architectures. Putting aside the fact the Garmin will not produce a Linux installation, it appears that they will not invest in upgrading their installation to 64 bit for later Windows operating systems either. Re: Garmin Communicator Plugin on Linux Reply 1 on: 16 July, 2011, 08:21:12 pm I haven't tried it but think that the windows version of Firefox works on wine and you can use the normal Garmin Communicator plugin. Since this was published there have been updates to some distributions such that 32 bit apps will not work on a 64 bit system. Im building a project that relies heavily on data read from a bunch Garmin eTrex HC devices, to do that I use the Garmin Communicator Plugin API, I have successfully found the device, read the data and uploaded it to a server where I will do further data manipulation. ![]()
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