NI mate v1.11 released – with Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) support

Posted on by Janne Karhu

This is a proud day as NI mate v1.11 is the first release to support Ubuntu 12.04! Please bear in mind that this is the first Ubuntu (in fact any kind of GNU/Linux) release that we’ve made and could still prove unstable in some situations. The Ubuntu installation instructions can be found at the bottom of this post. Other Ubuntu and Linux versions could also work, but we don’t guarantee this at the moment. We look forward to feedback on this release from all you Linux afficionados!

New features in v1.11 for all:

  • Fully scalable UI. You can now resize the UI freely.

  • The main UI window position and size is now saved on exit.

  • Option to send/not send the ghost feed as the alpha channel of other live views.

For full licence owners there’s even more new stuff in v1.11:

  • New Color ID live view mode to make it easy to pick each user separately from the feed. For more info see the documentation.

  • MIDI triggers can now be drawn over Live view outputs.

  • Detached & full screen live view modes to make it easier to see what’s happening when adjusting other parameters.

Bug fixes:

  • The joint orientation wasn’t always sent properly even though the joint location was sent.


Ubuntu installation instructions:

Either

  • Doubleclick on the package and install via Ubuntu Software Center.
    (the installation will complete with the package still showing the “Install” option until the package database is updated)

or

  • Install via terminal

    1. sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/Delicode-NI-mate_1.11-ubuntu_amd64.deb

    2. if you don’t have qt libraries installed this will complain about missing dependencies, the dependencies can be fixed with:
      sudo apt-get -f install

If you have plugged the sensor to the computer before installing NI mate, please restart the computer after installation.

Please note that in order to use the connected sensor, NI mate needs to stop the default sensor driver in the Ubuntu kernel from being used. This will effectively stop the sensor from working as a webcam.

 

As always, thanks for using NI mate! Now go get NI mate v1.11 from the download page!

4 Responses to NI mate v1.11 released – with Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) support

  2. Fulvio

    Great! I was really waiting for NI mate with Ubuntu support! Unfortunately, when I tried to install it on Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit), it gives me this error message:

    Lintian check results for /home/fulvio/Scaricati/Delicode-NI-mate_1.11-ubuntu_amd64.deb:
    E: Delicode-NI-mate: control-file-has-bad-permissions md5sums 0664 != 0644
    E: Delicode-NI-mate: control-file-has-bad-permissions postinst 0775 != 0755
    E: Delicode-NI-mate: control-file-has-bad-permissions prerm 0775 != 0755
    E: Delicode-NI-mate: bad-package-name
    E: Delicode-NI-mate: package-not-lowercase

    Have I to downgrade to Ubuntu 12.04? Thanks!

    Reply
  3. Janne Karhu

    Graham: glad you like the new features! :)

    Fulvio:
    The Lintian errors seem to mostly be related to the package “quality”, but shouldn’t be critical errors. Please try the command line approach to installing NI mate as this method could be able to get past these errors.

    The official support is only for Ubuntu 12.04, but you should definitely try with 12.10 first! If it works then wonderful, and if it doesn’t please get back to us with the errors you encountered so that we can see if something can be done about them.

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