On 26/11/14 14:30, Geoffrey Combes wrote: > I wish to have a tool for communicating with Microchips USB > HID-Bootloader for the purpose of installing new firmware. One such > tool is 'mphidflash' which supports Linux as well as Mac OSs and MS > Windows. > For Linux I am advised that I need the 'libhid-dev' package. It is not > in 14.04 LTS that I am using, although a search on the Internet states > that it was in Lucid 10.04. There are other such tools, one of which I > have for Windows. However I would like one for Linux. Does 14.10 have > something else that will do the job? > Any advice would be appreciated. > Geoffrey Combes >
Hi Geoffrey, It appears libhid has been superseded by a couple of other packages (or perhaps split into different versions - I'm not sure on the history). Try an 'apt-cache search libhid' to see the currently available options, or http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libhid for the web version. My guess is libhidapi-dev is the closest equivalent, but you'll likely have to patch the application to make it work (or find an alternative). Regards, Paul -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
