opencpn-cmd - Chartplotter and GPS Navigation Software CLI interface

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS RUNNING Debian/Ubuntu Flatpak MacOS Windows SEE ALSO

NAME

opencpn-cmd − Chartplotter and GPS Navigation Software CLI interface

SYNOPSIS

opencpn-cmd [options]

DESCRIPTION

opencpn-cmd provides command line access to some basic functionality available in opencpn. It is in alpha state.

Currently, opencpn-cmd supports various functions to load plugins and display some configuration information.

OPTIONS

−h, −−help

Show help info.

RUNNING

Debian/Ubuntu

After a build opencpn-cmd is available in the build directory and could be run directly:

$ cd build
$ cmake ...
$ make
$ ./opencpn-cmd --help

After ‘sudo make install‘ it is globally available. opencpn-cmd is included in the .deb packages.

Flatpak

Make a local Flatpak build as described in https://opencpn-manuals.github.io/main/opencpn-dev/linux.html#_flatpak This will also make a local installation.

opencpn-cmd needs to run in the Flatpak sandbox. Do:

$ flatpak run --command=bash --devel org.opencpn.OpenCPN
📦 opencpn-cmd --help

MacOS

After a local build followed by ‘sudo make install‘ opencpn-cmd is available in /usr/local/bin/. Run using:

$ /usr/local/bin/OpenCPN.app/Contents/MacOS/opencpn-cmd --help

The installer installs it under Applications. Run using:

$ /Applications/OpenCPN.app/Contents/MacOS/opencpn-cmd --help

Windows

The NSIS installer installs opencpn-cmd in the installation directory. In a standard install do:

> cd "\Program Files (x86)\OpenCPN"
> opencpn-cmd --help