Following this guide:
dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/companion … a-mavlink/
during the install phase, under “Install required packages on the Raspberry Pi”, you need to include
sudo apt-get install python-dev
I just went through this install and eventually got it working, but a new RPi does not come with python dev, and the pymavlink and mavproxy installation will fail if you do not include this package.
I thought I had fixed this. Now updated on wiki and will be updated on the official DK docs when this goes in github.com/diydrones/dronekit-python/pull/216
Note, the official docs are more likely to be up to date.
Thanks very much for posting this.
I have installed
sudo apt-get install python-dev
But when i try installing pymavlink and mavproxy. I get following on the console:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
python-dev is already the newest version (2.7.13-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo pip install pymavlink
Collecting pymavlink
Requirement already satisfied: future in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from pymavlink)
Collecting lxml (from pymavlink)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/5d/98f56e274bdf17f2e0d9016d1788ca80d26d8987dcd5e1d9416d86ee0625/lxml-4.2.1.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: lxml
And then console freezes.
Any suggestions? Thanks