here is what the author has to say https://joeyh.name/code/alien/
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> wrote: > Never tried this Alien convert RPM to DEB > > https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:02 PM, jimlux <[email protected]> wrote: >> Semi-off-topic.. >> >> I've got a bunch of Keysight/Agilent/HP instruments with USB interfaces that >> I want to control from Python. On Mac and PC, the PyVisa library works >> great (either the one with the NI back end or the python only back end ) >> >> But, on Ubuntu, there's no way to install the NI drivers (RH install only, >> and Ubuntu is debian..) >> >> So, I've been doing usbtmc, which sort of works. (after figuring out all >> the udev rules stuff) >> >> If I do something like this from the python interpreter: >> >>>>> import usbtmc >>>>> myinst = usbtmc.Instrument( mfr, product) >>>>> myinst.write('some command') >> >> it works fine. >> >> But if I put the same three linesin a .py file and run it, it doesn't always >> work.. sometimes, you need to send the command twice. >> >> It seems it might be a timing thing (in libusb or usbtmc?) but putting some >> sleep() in between connecting to the instrument and doing the write doesn't >> seem to work all the time. >> >> Very curious. >> >> Any ideas? >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
