APM Planner is one of the MAVLink supported Ground Control Station (GCS) software. APM Planner is an open-source project that supports the flight controllers running any one of the ArduPilot or PX4 flight stacks.
APM Planner is one of the best alternatives for Mission Planner on Linux. Since the Mission Planner doesn’t have native support for Linux, it’s not recommended for Linux mostly, but you can able to run the Mission Planner on Linux using cross compilers like Mono.
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APM Planner supports the following operating systems natively:
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Installing APM Planner on Linux
For Installing APM Planner on Linux, you need to download the deb file of the APM Planner on your device from the official downloads page1:
Or execute the following commands on your terminal for downloading the APM Planner using the wget command:
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$ wget https://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/APMPlanner/apm_planner_2.0.26_xenial64.deb
Downloading APM Planner
After downloading the APM Planner, you can install APM Planner by executing the following command on your device terminal:
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$ sudo dpkg -i apm_planner*.deb
Due to the dependency error, your installation may fail after the execution of the above command. For installing the dependent packages you can execute the following command:
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$ sudo apt-get -f install
Again, execute the installation command to completely install the APM Planner on your device.
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$ sudo dpkg -i apm_planner*.deb
Now, you’ve successfully installed APM Planner on your Debian-based Linux device. You can start APM Planner by executing the following command on the terminal:
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$ apmplanner2
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If you’re using OpenSUSE, then you can download the rpm version of APM Planner from this link. Also, you can able to directly build from the source, if you’re using Arch-based Linux distributions.
Installing APM Planner on Windows
You can able to install the APM Planner on Windows by downloading the following installer on your device, or else you can also download the latest version from the official downloads page:
Installing APM Planner on Mac
For installing APM Planner on Mac OS, you can follow the official documentation.
Conclusion
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