Install Mission Planner on Raspberry Pi

Mission Planner

Software used to control autonomous vehicles.
Mission Planner is a free, open-source ground station for communicating with autonomous aircraft, vehicles, or boats running Ardupilot firmware. It's used to monitor such vehicles, view logs, and create waypoint missions.

To run: Menu -> Programming -> Mission Planner
To run in a terminal: LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 mono ~/MissionPlanner-latest/MissionPlanner.exe

Fortunately, Mission Planner is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Mission Planner.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Bookworm.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Mission Planner will run on either PiOS 32-bit or 64-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Mission Planner

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Mission Planner.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Engineering category.

Now scroll down to find Mission Planner in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Mission Planner for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io