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asterisk.

4. Run sudo pololu-tic/install.sh to install the software. You will need to have sudo privilege

on your system and you might need to type your password at this point. Look at the output of

the script to see if any errors happened.

5. After the installation has completed, plug the Tic into your computer via USB. If you already

connected the Tic earlier, unplug it and plug it in again to make sure the newly-installed udev

rules are applied.

6. Run ticcmd --list to make sure the software can detect the Tic. This command should

print the serial number and model of the Tic. If it prints nothing, see the “USB troubleshooting

for Linux” section below.

7. Run ticgui to start the Tic Control Center.

This Tic software consists of two programs:

• The Pololu Tic Control Center (ticgui) is a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the

Tic, viewing its status, and controlling it manually. You can open a terminal and type ticgui

to run it.

• The Pololu Tic Command-line Utility (ticcmd) is a command-line utility that can do most of

what the GUI can do, and more. You can open a terminal and type ticcmd with no arguments

to a see a summary of its options.

No special drivers are needed for the Tic on Linux. Also, the Tic software is statically compiled; it does

not depend on any shared libraries.

The source code for the software [https://github.com/pololu/pololu-tic-software] is available.

Software installation troubleshooting for Linux

If you do not have sudo privilege or you do not remember your password, you can skip running

install.sh and just run the Tic programs directly from the directory you extracted them to. For

example, try running pololu-tic/ticgui after running the tar command above. You should also

consider moving the software to a more permanent location and adding that location to your PATH as

described below.

If you get a “No such file or directory” error while running ./install.sh , it is possible that your

system is missing one of the directories that the install script assumes will be present. Please contact

[https://www.pololu.com/contact] us to let us know about your system so we can consider supporting it

better in the future.

If you get the error “command not found” when you try to run ticcmd or ticgui , then you should run

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