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• Before You Start | Quick Guide | Step-by-Step Tutorials

The screen shots were made under Ubuntu 20.04.10, 64bit, and minimal installation.

Open FireFox and goto https://wiki.rocrail.net.
Select on the side bar Download macOS & Linux:

See the list of compatible distributions.
Select the ZIP Installer for the used Ubuntu version:

Click on the installer and let it be opened by the default application:

Click on Extract:

Create the ~/Rocrail folder:

The unzipped files are shown in the file explorer:

Open a terminal window:


To install the needed wxWidgets library, which is needed for Rocview, start with sudo the ./installwx.sh.
Start ./desktoplink.sh to create a Rocview Desktop link, (Do not start this script with prefix sudo!)


The desktop link must be allowed to launch.
Initially it looks not like the Rocrail Icon:

Just allow launching with this link:

Just (double)click the Rocview Desktop Link.

Select from the Rocview Menu: File → Demo Workspace:

Testing Rocrail virtually is now possible:

If your Command Station needs an USB and/or Serial connection, check this.