Installing Cahute

In order to install Cahute’s library and command-line utilities, the instructions depends on the system you want to install it on.

Note

The guides expect p7 and p7screen to be directly usable in your command-line shell at the end of the installation process, i.e. that:

  • Either both executables are placed in a directory already referenced by your $PATH;

  • Or the directory in which both executables are placed is added to your $PATH, and your shell has been updated to take the change into account.

If neither of these is the case for your system, you will need to tweak the commands to point to the right executable in an absolute or relative fashion, e.g. /opt/cahute/bin/p7 info.

apple macOS, OS X

Cahute and its command-line utilities can be installed using homebrew Homebrew.

Once Homebrew is installed, disconnect all calculators from your computer and install the cahute formula with the following command:

brew install cahute

Warning

The installation requires that no calculator is currently connected to your computer through USB; having one currently in receive mode may result in the installation failing.

archlinux Archlinux, manjaro Manjaro Linux

Cahute and its command-line utilities are present on the Archlinux User Repository, you can pop up your favourite pacman frontend and install the cahute package:

  • Using paru:

    paru -S cahute

  • Using pikaur:

    pikaur -S cahute

Once installed, it is recommended to add your user to the uucp group, for access to serial and USB devices, by running the following command as root then restarting your session:

usermod -a -G uucp <your-username>

lephe GiteaPC

Cahute and its command-line utilities are installable as a desktop application through GiteaPC, by running the following command:

giteapc install cake/cahute@0.5

Other systems

Note

This guide may not be exhaustive, and a package may exist for your distribution. Please check with your distribution’s package registry and/or wiki before proceeding!

If no package exists for your distribution, or you are to package Cahute for your distribution, you can build the command-line utilities yourself.

See Building Cahute from source for more information.