Installing on Ubuntu issue

Hi,
I get this error when I try to launch GC:

Exception: The version of Kivy installed on this system is too old. (You have 1.9.0, but the application requires 1.9.1)

I am not really familiar with Linux but happens that I have a spare Chromebook that would be ideal to leave in the shop to run the Maslow.
Thanks for your patience and help.

Welcome to the Forum!
What version of Ubuntu do you have installed?

Thanks!
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release: 16.04

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OK, I remember from 16.04 that it also has a outdated version of the pyserial module.
I managed to update that before, but will need to look up how i did that.

Do you have the superuser (sudo) password and have you worked with the ‘terminal’ before?

Yes, I have superuser and basic knowledge. I can use apt-get, vi editor and basic stuff like that.

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Great! Can you do in a terminal ‘pip list’ and post the output? I assume pip is installed.
If not ‘sudo apt-get install pip’.

Here it is:
Package Version


Kivy 1.9.0
numpy 1.11.0
Pillow 3.1.2
pip 19.0.2
pygame 1.9.1release
pygobject 3.20.0
pyserial 3.0.1
setuptools 20.7.0
wheel 0.29.0

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Here is my list on ubuntu mate 18:
pip 10.0.1
Kivy 1.9.1
pyserial 3.3

I take no responsibility if something breaks, but what I would try is:

sudo pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install --upgrade Kivy
sudo pip install --upgrade pyserial

Edit: Offtopic, but good to know:
Add your user to at least the "Dialout’ group to have user permissions on the ports for the arduino.

sudo usermod -a -G tty {yourUserName}
sudo usermod -a -G dialout {yourUserName}

When I try to upgrade Kivy I get this error:
Cannot uninstall ‘Kivy’. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

Seems like it cannot remove the old version

skip the pip, install kivy directly

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/installation/installation-linux.html

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It worked! Thanks a lot for your help and patience.
Ground Control is now running and so the Arduino IDE.
Firmware is next. I am looking forward to fire it up.

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