Tool offset patch

What is the easiest way to apply a patch to my system? We found a patch,


sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&ati...539522&group_id=6744

This is supposed to allow us to enter wear offsets for our tools, and I am not sure how to even begin to apply this to my operating system.

I have put the "Features=64' in my INI file but am lost after that.


Thanks

Hi John,

I have the git version of linux downloaded, do I have to worry about setting up my identity on git? My system says that GIT it is already loaded onto the computer, I can't find it though, so I do not know if any of that is setup?


Thanks

Sorry, John that is what was put into the terminal window and it downloaded. Heres what it did,

srt@Cinci:~$ git clone git://git.linuxcnc.org/git/linuxcnc.git linuxcnc-dev
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/srt/linuxcnc-dev/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 110912, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25444/25444), done.
remote: Total 110912 (delta 87482), reused 107589 (delta 84515)
Receiving objects: 100% (110912/110912), 59.80 MiB | 235 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (87482/87482), done.
srt@Cinci:~$

John,

I hope your not getting irritated,

Here is what I get when I try to apply the patch, and How do I change directories,

srt@Cinci:~$ git clone git://git.linuxcnc.org/git/linuxcnc.git linuxcnc-dev
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/srt/linuxcnc-dev/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 110912, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25444/25444), done.
remote: Total 110912 (delta 87482), reused 107589 (delta 84515)
Receiving objects: 100% (110912/110912), 59.80 MiB | 235 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (87482/87482), done.
srt@Cinci:~$ git am --signoff tool-change.patch
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
srt@Cinci:~$ git am --signoff 0001-Fanuc-style-tool-change-for-Lathes.-On-Fanuc-control.patch
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
srt@Cinci:~$

Good Morning John,

I sat down and read thru the manuals you sent along with what I found about git and linuxcnc-git and am feeling a little better about what I'm doing, problem I am having is that I missed a step about checking for outstanding build dependencies, I did that step now, and I have some things need to get installed. I try to install and here is what I get;

srt@Cinci:~/linuxcnc-dev$ apt-get install dvipng
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
srt@Cinci:~/linuxcnc-dev$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for srt:


I entered the sudo -i and then it will not allow me to type to enter our password.