Hi,

I had same issue on Ubuntu 17.04, tried to build it from sources, but
pulseview is stucked somewhere consuming 100% CPU, so only sigrok-cli was
working with my fx2 analyzer.

Your package works great and saved me :). Now I have PV as well.

Thanks,
Cezar

On Sun, May 14, 2017 11:16 pm, Alistair Buxton wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I created a snap for sigrok. A snap is a universal Linux package. See
> https://snapcraft.io
>
>
> I made this because the version of sigrok in 16.04 does not support my
> FX2 analyzer.
>
>
> If you want to try it and you are on Ubuntu 16.04+ or one of the other
> supported distributions just run:
>
> sudo snap install --edge sigrok-ali1234
>
> then run this to allow USB permission:
>
> sudo snap connect sigrok-ali1234:raw-usb :raw-usb
>
> The binaries are called sigrok-ali1234.sigrok-cli and
> sigrok-ali1234.pulseview.
>
> This is built using git master and runs with strict confinement. It is
> fully containerized so it won't conflict with your existing sigrok install,
> even if you installed from source. It is built on launchpad and you can
> see all the project stuff here:
>
> Project: https://code.launchpad.net/sigrok-snap-test
> Snap: https://code.launchpad.net/~a-j-buxton/+snap/sigrok
> Metadata repo: https://git.launchpad.net/sigrok-snap-test/tree/
>
>
> There are still a couple of problems to be worked out:
>
>
> - Automatic builds aren't there yet. It only automatically builds when
> the metadata repository is updated, not the subrepos. - Launchpad does not
> support remote git: URLs, only https: so I had to mirror the repos. -
> libsigrok will crash if you don't grant USB permission. It should probably
> fail more gracefully. - Pulseview might not use the same theme as the rest
> of the desktop. (This affects all snaps.)
>
>
> Please try it and let me know what you think.
>
>
> --
> Alistair Buxton
> a.j.bux...@gmail.com
>
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