7I92TH Help

I managed to grenade my 7i92H board. I just received a replacement 7i92TH. I am running Linuxcnc 2.8.0 Debian buster. I tried to update Mesaflash using the steps at the bottom of the GitHub page, and get errors on every step. If I try apt-get install mesaflash, it says I am up to date with 3.4.0. 

What would be the best way to update mesaflash so I can flash the new board?

I am still cutting my teeth on Linux, but I can usually figure things out eventually.

Would I be better off just fresh installing a newer version of linuxcnc?  

Thank you in advance!!

Ken
 

What errors do you get when you attempt to build mesaflash from source?

The first step returns "E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?"

The second returns "bash: git: command not found"

Is it possible you have the package manager open?

askubuntu.com/questions/1109982/e-could-...1-resource-temporari

Yes it was.

Now it returns "
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package pkg-config is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Unable to locate package libpci-dev
E: Unable to locate package libmd-dev
E: Package 'pkg-config' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package build-essential
E: Unable to locate package git

You might try:

sudo apt-get update

first.

Also, what does

uname -a

report?

 

ken@X3MesaCNC:/$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for ken:
Ign:1 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10 _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20201002-19:09] buster InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10 _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20201002-19:09] buster Release
Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:3 www.linuxcnc.org buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10 _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20201002-19:09] buster Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Weird, it sounds like you don't have network access

uname -a returns:
Linux X3MesaCNC 4.19.0-11-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.19.146-1 (2020-09-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is it possible my hard drive looks like a live CD?

I burned a usb stick with 2.8.4 last night, maybe it would be best to start over?