Never tried this Alien convert RPM to DEB https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:02 PM, jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Semi-off-topic.. > > I've got a bunch of Keysight/Agilent/HP instruments with USB interfaces that > I want to control from Python. On Mac and PC, the PyVisa library works > great (either the one with the NI back end or the python only back end ) > > But, on Ubuntu, there's no way to install the NI drivers (RH install only, > and Ubuntu is debian..) > > So, I've been doing usbtmc, which sort of works. (after figuring out all > the udev rules stuff) > > If I do something like this from the python interpreter: > >>>> import usbtmc >>>> myinst = usbtmc.Instrument( mfr, product) >>>> myinst.write('some command') > > it works fine. > > But if I put the same three linesin a .py file and run it, it doesn't always > work.. sometimes, you need to send the command twice. > > It seems it might be a timing thing (in libusb or usbtmc?) but putting some > sleep() in between connecting to the instrument and doing the write doesn't > seem to work all the time. > > Very curious. > > Any ideas? > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.