Hi Tim,

I have solved the problem.  It seemed like the .so files were present and where they should be
but they were not being found.  To test this theory, I copied /usr/lib/libpigpio.so and
/usr/lib/libpigpiod_if2.so to the same folder as the Squeak VM.  After that everything worked
as expected.  I have asked Dave Lewis off line if there is a better way than copying the files.
I will post what I end up with when I'm sure what is best.

Thanks again.

Lou


On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:23:31 -0700, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
>> On 23-10-2017, at 8:26 AM, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at Keystone-Software.com> wrote:
>
>>  I tried:
>> 
>> sudo pigpiod
>> 
>> just to see what would happen.  The response was:
>> 
>> 2017-10-23 10:58:46 initInitialise: Can't lock /var/run/pigpio.pid
>> Can't initialise pigpio library
>> 
>> Does that tell us anything?
>
>That seems to me to confirm that pigpio was installed and that something else is stopping it
 which is pretty much where my ‘expertise’ in linux runs out.
>
>A bit of digging on the Pi forums (which you really ought to belong to and read with your morning coffee every day)) suggests that one has to have done
>`sudo systemctl enable pigpiod `
>but I was under the impression that that is for starting the daemon as a service automatically. I see several places where people talk about installing pigpio on lite and they all seemed to just use the `sudo apt-get install pigpio` thing.
>
>It would be worth signing up to the Pi forums (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/) and looking through stuff there, maybe even asking in the Raspbian forum if you can’t spot anything.
>
>The key site for pigpio is http://abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpiod.html and joan is generally very helpful if you email. It might be worth redoing the install from source, which is explained on her site.
>
>tim
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