7i96 Configuration Tool

John I get...

John,

looking at the Stretch install I see the 7i96.Py in my home dir $local.bin. On this Mint install there is no $.bin directory, just a shared.

Since I'm looking in a hidden directory shouldn't the system create the $.bin?

Thank you for writing the tool. It made it lots easier to get going. I now have a card which actually drives some steppers. Excellent!

I also ran into the problem the tool didn't want to start, I solved it by just starting it directly from the library dir where all its files live.

BigJohnT wrote:

The home/user/.bin in Debian is not in the path by default. Try $PATH and see if local/.bin is there. If not then do step 3 in the install instructions.
JT

That was part of it. I had to create the file "xsessionrc" not ".xsessionrc" That catches me every time. But it still wouldn't work.

How I got it to work was downloading the python "setuptools" then follow the install instructions verbatim. I found online some issues with Mint and pip without having setuptools. I also had to use the sudo -H switch, something about not having permissions to my own home directory. Can't say I understand, but it does work now.

And a year from now I will have completely forgotten all this.

BigJohnT, i'm trying to install the config tool but MINT cant download the PKG from the adress you specIfy

I'v checked Python version, it's the 3, but the PIP3 command is unkown to my Mint

I installed this version and it's running ok, the 7i96 works ok moving all steppers accordingly


02 Mar 2020 04:26 Linux Mint 19.2 MATE with RT_PREEMPT
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...cnc?start=110#158899

JT just received my 7i96 card and have been attempting to install the Configuration Tool without success. I have been following your Instructions on Git Hub but continue to receive the following message:

"Collecting git+https://github.com/jethornton/7i96.git
Cloning github.com/jethornton/7i96.git to /tmp/pip-c0w096qq-build
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-c0w096qq-build/"

Can you help me?

I received very much the same error.

I had to specifically install python "SetupTools" for what ever reason. Then the 7i96 tool would download and install via the GitHub instructions.