Tool offset patch

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:~$

When you open a terminal you are in your home directory. To change the directory you use "cd path to directory". So you need to do "cd linuxcnc-dev" then do a list to see if your file is there with "ls". The git patch command only works in a directory created by git.

Some good reading on basic linux terminal commands here .

John

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.

Great to see your making progress.

Anytime you use a command that requires root privileges you precede the command with sudo.

sudo apt-get install dvipng

will prompt you for your password then proceed to install the package.

John

I just tried that, It liked it, then It asked for the password, and when I try to enter my password, it doesn't do anything, the cursor stops blinking, stays solid black as long as I'm trying to type. No letters show up



I talked to my boss and he said that the letters will not show up.

I am having problems applying the patch now, here is what it is saying

srt@Cinci:~/linuxcnc-dev$ git am --signoff 0001-Fanuc-style-tool-change-for-Lathes.patch
previous rebase directory /home/srt/linuxcnc-dev/.git/rebase-apply still exists but mbox given.
srt@Cinci:~/linuxcnc-dev$