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PCAN-View is a simple CAN monitor software for receiving and transmitting CAN and CAN FD messages. PCAN-View for Linux is based on the NCurses library.
System requirements:
This software requires the chardev driver.
Please use the Driver Package for Proprietary Purposes.
Installing software through repository needs first to register the repository only once. Next to the first installation of the software, there is nothing you have to do, except installing available updates when prompted by your system.
Download and install the following file peak-system.list from the PEAK-System website:
$ wget -q http://www.peak-system.com/debian/dists/`lsb_release -cs`/peak-system.list -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/peak-system.list
Note: If the lsb_release tool is not installed on your Linux system then replace `lsb_release -cs` by the name of your Linux distribution. For example:
$ wget -q http://www.peak-system.com/debian/dists/wheezy/peak-system.list -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/peak-system.list
Then, download and install the PEAK-System public key for apt-secure, so that the repository is trusted:
$ wget -q http://www.peak-system.com/debian/peak-system-public-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
To install pcanview-ncurses next, do:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pcanview-ncurses
apt-key being last available in Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04, as well as Deb822-style format tending to replace the old one-line format in the packages sources specification, users of newer Debian-based distributions should instead use the following command lines:
Download and install the following file peak-system.sources from the PEAK-System website:
$ wget -q http://www.peak-system.com/debian/dists/`lsb_release -cs`/peak-system.sources -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/peak-system.sources
Note: If the lsb_release tool is not installed on your Linux system then replace `lsb_release -cs` by the name of your Linux distribution. For example:
$ wget -q http://www.peak-system.com/debian/dists/noble/peak-system.sources -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/peak-system.sources
Then, download and install the PEAK-System public key for apt-secure, so that the repository is trusted:
$ wget -q http://www.peak-system.com/debian/peak-system-public-key.asc -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
To install pcanview-ncurses next, do as usual under Debian:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pcanview-ncurses
The supported architectures are summarized in the table below:
| amd64 | i386 | arm64 | armhf | ppc64el | |
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| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed | see Xenial |
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