SDK supported on Ubunut 20?

It works. But you need to find libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 and other libraries it'll require after installing it.

Now, I installed Kubuntu 21.04 but haven't installed the Eclipse and the SDK yet. I'm sure it'll run but, my main issue was I couldn't compile with any SDK later tan 3.1.9 due to lots of errors related to Json files. I'll try it today.

Well, I still get the missing api.doc file, but turns out I had an error in my old code and the build was failing. I fixed the code so the build succeeds and now the simulator shows the FENIX5 watch and the buttons seem to work.

So, for the most part I am good to go, but still curious about the missing api.db file and whether it has an impact.

Thanks

Chris Kottaridis

api.db is not in share/simulator folder but in bin folder. You can try copy pasting or linking it from there.

So 4.0.2 almost works for you? So maybe I should add some of its repositories and play with that.

I made the link and now when I go to Help->About in the simulator I do not get the error message.

So, within my limits of understanding I seem to have everything working, sdkmanager, connectIQ extension to Eclipse, and the simulator on Ubuntu 20.04 using Connect IQ 4.0.2 as the SDK.

Thanks for your help!

Here is the README.txt file with the specifics of what I did. I created it in case I need to do this again.

README.txt:

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I needed to download some libraries as recommended on connect IQ forum:

forums.garmin.com/.../sdk-supported-on-ubunut-20

The recommendation was:
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I installed the Eclipse and SDK on Kubuntu 21.04.

First, the libraries I needed to use to install are these and I uploaded for convenience for who wants to try. These aqre not up to date actually, but were present in my local library:

libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 www.f-blog.info/.../libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb
libicu60 www.f-blog.info/.../libicu60_60.2-3ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
libenchant1c2a www.f-blog.info/.../libenchant1c2a_1.6.0-11.4_amd64.deb
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 www.f-blog.info/.../libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb

Later I needed to install libpng12 to run the simulator but couldn't due to some errors.

www.f-blog.info/.../libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1b_amd64.deb

I simply exported data.tar.xz content to root directory and simulator runs well again with CIQ 3.1.9.

<picture of simulator>

Later I switched to the latest 4.0.2 and it does the same. Long list of errors related to parsing of device Json files.

<screen shot of errors>
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I was able to download the packages by clicking on the links in the article above.

I found I didn't have to manually install libenchant1c2a. When loading libwebkitgtk-1.0 it seemed to have found a version of libenchant1c2a to load as a dependency.

I loaded them in this order:

libicu60:
~/connectIQ/libs$ sudo apt install /home/chris/connectIQ/libs/libicu60_60.2-3ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb

libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0:
~/connectIQ/libs$ sudo apt install /home/chris/connectIQ/libs/libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb

libwebkitgtk-1.0-0:
~/connectIQ/libs$ sudo apt install /home/chris/connectIQ/libs/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb

This allowed me to run sdkmanager, however it complained:

$ bin/sdkmanager
Gtk-Message: 04:43:59.652: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

I then used the synaptic package manager to install canberra-gtk-module and now when I run sdkmanager it comes up and I don't see the above error.

I also installed the following since the note implied the simulator needed it:
libpng-12:
~/connectIQ/libs$ sudo apt install /home/chris/connectIQ/libs/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1b_amd64.deb

When running the simulator if you clicked on Help->About you'd get an error like this:

can't open file '/home/chris/.Garmin/ConnectIQ/Sdks/connectiq-sdk-lin-4.0.2-2021-05-13-9b3b7f19f/share/simulator/api.db' (error 2: No such file or directory)

In the same thread as above it was pointed out that there is an api.db in bin, but not one in share. So, per the recommendation I made the following link:

~/.Garmin/ConnectIQ/Sdks/connectiq-sdk-lin-4.0.2-2021-05-13-9b3b7f19f/share/simulator$ link ../../bin/api.db api.db

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