Need help to install 5 axis knematics

Please report back with what you have found so we can fix the documentation.

Can you paste the error report?

It seems that toplevel.py in /home/rex/linuxcnc/configs/5AXIS/python/ is causing a syntax error in line 28:

except Exception,e:

I'm not sure but if you have you built master after July 31 then this this is probably related to Python2 having been replaced with Python3 in current master.

I believe the correct syntax in Python3 would be:
except Exception as e:

But it's likely that there will be other issues in the code. There is is a script called 2to3 for automated code translation:
docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html

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Unfortunately it's somewhat bad timing to be using master at the moment as the change to python3 has been made very recently and it's a BIG change.
So you can try to fix the python code yourself or submit it as an issue on github.
Depending on how well you are versed in python.
I think it's going to take a while getting all the issues ironed out.

I can't give you any advise regarding base thread as I use MESA cards, so maybe somebody else can help you there.