I have been asked many times if GrblGru is also available for Linux. Until now I always had to deny this.
But now a clever user has found a way to run GrblGru on “Wine” under Linux.
According to him it is still possible to improve the process.
Since I have no experience with Linux, I can only pass on the instruction on my website at the moment. (See https://www.grblgru.com/)
I would be very happy if the Linux gurus of this forum would take a look at it.
Necessary information and also changes for further improvements I will gladly provide.
2nd attempt
Once again, a clever user has found a way to run GrblGru on Linux.
The program that makes this possible is called ‘Bottles’.
You can find brief instructions on how to use it on my website.
Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to access the USB interface.
Any tips on how to find a solution for this are welcome.
In Wine, you create links in ~/.wine/dosdevices to map your native Linux devices to a windows device. For example, you might have com1 -> /dev/ttyUSB0
Because Bottles uses flatpak for isolation, I expect that toggling the Device settings in Flatseal, or flatpak override --device=all on the command line, might help. I don’t use Bottles so I can’t go further here with testing, but maybe these “breadcrumbs” can help someone who does? If they do, please report back here with the details.
One of the things I often do to test things on Linux is to download a lightweight Linux like Lubuntu and then make a bootable USB thumbdrive( Etcher is one such tool- https://etcher.balena.io/ ).
Then I boot up a machine from the USB( instead of the default internal disk drive ) and run it as a Live image( no installation ). I then connect to a network, update the package manager but I do not update the system because it can eat up lots of your RAM.
Now install the software and see if it runs. Note: it’s all running in the computer RAM and is not using your local disk drive so really big applications might not work if you are on a computer with only 4-8GB of RAM.
