RaspBerry Pi bash: sim_vehicle.py: command not found

ArduCopter Copter Simulation
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Hi! I’m trying to build in a raspberry pi and I literally copied and pasted the whole Setting up the Build Environment (Linux/Ubuntu) — Dev documentation page but I cant make sim_vehicle.py work. When I’m in the ardupilot/ArduCopter directory there is no sim_vehicle.py. I installed the tools like a million times and I can see that there is a sim_vehicle.py file in Tools but it does not work in ardupilot/ArduCopter. Altough I could make it work by copying the path( /home/pi/ardupilot/Tools/autotest/sim_vehicle.py ) and typing the frame type and others. What do you think the problem is ?

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You should have the path in your .profile
As written in wiki you need to logout/login to make it active

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How do I save the path in my .profile I do . ~/.profile and it doesn’t show anything. I logout and log in as you said and it still does not work

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git clone GitHub - ArduPilot/ardupilot: ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
fatal: destination path ‘ardupilot’ already exists and is not an empty directory.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ardupilot/
pi@raspberrypi:~/ardupilot $ git submodule update --init --recursive
pi@raspberrypi:~/ardupilot $ Tools/environment_install/install-prereqs-ubuntu.sh -y
---------- Tools/environment_install/install-prereqs-ubuntu.sh start ----------

  • ‘[’ 1000 == 0 ‘]’
  • OPT=/opt
  • ARDUPILOT_TOOLS=Tools/autotest
  • ASSUME_YES=false
  • QUIET=false
  • sep=’##############################################’
  • OPTIND=1
  • getopts yq opt
  • case “$opt” in
  • ASSUME_YES=true
  • getopts yq opt
  • APT_GET=‘sudo apt-get’
  • true
  • APT_GET=‘sudo apt-get --assume-yes’
  • false
  • sudo apt-get --assume-yes update
    Hit:1 Index of /debian bullseye InRelease
    Hit:2 Index of /repo/debian stable-raspbianbuster InRelease
    Hit:3 Index of /raspbian bullseye InRelease
    Reading package lists… Done
  • package_is_installed lsb-release
  • dpkg-query -W ‘-f=${Status}’ lsb-release
  • grep -c ‘ok installed’
    1
    ++ lsb_release -c -s
  • RELEASE_CODENAME=bullseye
  • PYTHON_V=python
  • PIP=pip2
  • ‘[’ bullseye == xenial ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == disco ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == eoan ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == focal ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == ulyssa ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == groovy ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == hirsute ‘]’
  • ‘[’ bullseye == bullseye ‘]’
  • SITLFML_VERSION=2.5
  • SITLCFML_VERSION=2.5
  • PYTHON_V=python3
  • PIP=pip3
  • ARM_PKG_CONFIG_NOT_PRESENT=0
    ++ apt-cache search -n ‘^pkg-config-arm-linux-gnueabihf’
  • ‘[’ -z ‘’ ‘]’
    ++ dpkg-query --search pkg-config-arm-linux-gnueabihf
    ++ grep -c dpkg-query:
  • ARM_PKG_CONFIG_NOT_PRESENT=1
  • ‘[’ 1 -eq 1 ‘]’
  • INSTALL_PKG_CONFIG=
  • sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pkg-config
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree… Done
    Reading state information… Done
    pkg-config is already the newest version (0.29.2-1).
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  • ‘[’ -f /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper ‘]’
  • sudo ln -s /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-pkg-config
    ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-pkg-config’: File exists
    pi@raspberrypi:~/ardupilot $ . ~/.profile

After that I log in and log out @ppoirier still does not work

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.profile is updated as part of the install shell script

Just look at it , type cat .profile in home directory and you should have a path to Tools

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Thanks! I worked it out