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Open source software for autonomous unmanned systems

AQ Ground Control Station

Ubuntu 14.04

The compiled linux version is know to work well under Ubuntu 14.04. It is available here: http://autoquad.org/software-downloads/?did=171

Ubuntu 16.04

If you are running Ubuntu 16.04 you need to recompile the source:

The downloaded version of the AQ Ground Control Station for Linux (64 bit) at +http://autoquad.org/software-downloads/?did=171 gives the error message (on Ubuntu 16.04): “./qgroundcontrol_aq: +error while loading shared libraries: libestools.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or +directory”.

The solution is to clone the AQ Ground Control Station (qgroundcontrol_aq) from AutoQuad's git repository and compile it yourself:

Install dependencies:

sudo apt install qt5-default libudev-dev libsdl2-dev

Clone the source:

git clone https://github.com/AutoQuad/qgroundcontrol_aq 
git clone https://github.com/AutoQuad/mavlink_headers 

Copy mavlink headers to the qgroundcontrol_aq directory:

cd qgroundcontrol_aq/libs/mavlink
cp -r ../../../mavlink_headers/include .

Run:

cd qgroundcontrol_aq
qmake

In the qgroundcontrol_aq/Makefile at the line beginning with LIBS change the references:

-lSDL -lSDLmain

to:

-lSDL2 -lSDL2main

Build the application:

cd qgroundcontrol_aq
make    

If everything works out the binary file will now be in qgroundcontrol_aq/bin/qgroundcontrol_aq