Latest version of LinuxCNC for Ubuntu 10.04?

(sorry if this is going through twice, I don't see it in the subject list and there wasn't anything about it being in a moderation queue or the like)
What I've tried:

Latest ISO w/2.7.4 works but too much latency, so I tried

older ISO w/Ubuntu 8.04. Much faster but won't import my Mach3 settings(and I'm guessing it won't import my 2.7.4 settings either since it's a newer version)

So I tried just updating LinuxCNC but Ubuntu 8.04 only supports Python 2.5/2.6 and it needs 2.7(and there are a LOT of libraries that can't be easily upgraded).

That's when I decided to install Ubuntu 10.04 in hopes I could get the libraries in a PPA or the like but now despite everything I've done when I configure it keeps complaining that

"configure: error: boost::python is required to build LinuxCNC"

except I have libboost-python-dev installed. It's only 1.4.2 but it's indeed installed.


Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? I'm normally a Gentoo user but compiling the RTAI sources proved a lot harder than I expected since it seems the instructions for EMC2 on Gentoo are waaay outdated. I use Ubuntu a little but am no guru.

Any help appreciated.

Yeah, I must have missed that the first time around. The second time I saw it but figured it made zero sense to try to send an "oops" message. I'm cool with moderation. I've had to deal with an equal amount of spam over the years. Not an easy job.

I'm assuming there is a point at which people are taken off moderation?


For the record, after importing the 2.7 settings into 2.5, it said they were fine but then when I started 2.5 with those settings it complained about some extra settings flags(not sure which as I didn't write them down) and I think it said it removed them), I restarted it and everything works like before. Now I'm not getting any realtime errors so that's a huge plus.