Has anyone tried to connect their tomtom XXL or other to Tomtom home on Linux Ubuntu or any other make ?. I’m not interest in emulators just Linux only. Thats if there is a Linux version.
Tomtom don’t do a Linux native version of “Home” … and according to their forum, they have no intention of doing one.
See moz1959’s reply here:
http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/Map-installation/TOMTOM-Home-Linux-version/td-p/92435/page/2
And although you’re supposed to be able to run it under wine I can’t seem to get it working.
SGS 2 and Tapatalk are awesome.
Yet another case of a company using Linux on their devices, then only supporting Windows :
There is pyTOMTOM in launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/pytomtom
Dunno if it’s any good though.
Whilst trying to install pytomtom from the software centre I got this message,
The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn’t allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.
With these details
Lintian check results for /home/gill/Downloads/pytomtom-0.5.deb:
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/lintian line 108.
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/pytomtom 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/applications/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/applications/pytomtom.desktop 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/de/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/es/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/fr/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/gl/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/it/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/pl/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/pt/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/vi/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/pytomtom.mo 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/pytomtom.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/gpsquickfix.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/icon.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/options.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/personalize.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/poi.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/pytomtom.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/quit.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/pix/saverestore.png 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/src/ 1000/1000
E: pyTOMTOM: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pytomtom/src/pytomtom.py 1000/1000
Thing is, it means nothing to me.
Can we do anything about it, would the problem still exist if I used the tar.biz download, as always any help is much appreciated.
Which version of Ubuntu are you running ?
and how are you trying to install the .deb ?
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If is doesn’t run in Wine and pyTomTom don’t work then its no good buying a TomTom if you can’t update it. You would have to buy a cheap notebook with USB that has windows on it just for Tomtom. Unless you have a desktop computer with interchangeable caddies for different OS’s.
Unless you have a desktop computer with interchangeabl e caddies for different OS's.
Or a simple dual boot system would suffice
Or Windows in a VM
Dude … you seem to have a massive caddy fetish thing going on there 
Caddies (or more than 1 HDD) are NOT necessary to have more than one OS on a PC.
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