Installing gedit

I am confused,
did you try apt-get install gedit AFTER removing the comments in sources.list and running apt-get update?

If you got errors then, cut and paste them and attach.

Yup, I did all that,got frustrated and reinstalled the OS.

1. checked that etc/apt/sources.list was not commented out

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get install gedit-common gedit gedit-plugins

process ran exited with no errors or warnings and I now have gedit installed and working.

Now all I have to do is update linuxcnc with the master,

What I did last time is use the LinuxCNC buildbot instructions buildbot.linuxcnc.org
I think that that is where all my troubles started. I maybe put something where it was not supposed to go.????

short version
get a key
get the master stanza into etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxcnc-buildot.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linuxcnc

any glaring errors to this. Maybe I put stuff in the wrong place. When I did it I uncommented the entry for the master list and commented the other entries.(good or bad)?

Have not done that yet. As i said I did something stuped.

ArcEye

I updated linuxcnc and everything worked as advertised. I believe all my problems were from me putting stuff in the wrong place.

I do appreciate the time and effort. I should have done this to start with and regret the inconvenience. However I am more knowledgeable
about all this so that is a big plus for me. Thanks again for all the guidance and assistance.

As everything is working could you reccomend another app to install to make sure it works after updating linuxcnc?

synaptic, then you won't have to install packages from the command line