Complete HOW-TO Linux Mint 18.1 32/64 RTAI or PREEMPT with RIP install or deb

This thread started a long time ago.
I notice that newest Mint is 19.2
and newest RT is 5.2.21
mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/

Do I need to use newest versions or go with 18.1
and 4.9.4-RT2
like suggested

Sorry if the question is dum. First time I use linux was a week ago, so I am total newbie.

My computer is Dell T3500
Intel Xeon W3530 / 2.8 GHz
Max Turbo Speed 3.06 GHz
Number of Cores Quad-Core
64-bit Computing Yes
Chipset Type Intel X58 Express
Processor Main Features Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel Turbo Boost Technology
Processor Socket LGA1366 Socket

Hey guys/gals!!

Sorry I was not able to support this thread any longer. The forum rules changed and I could no longer edit my posts. So this became unmanageable and I do not have the time necessary for full support. I was just trying to help the people trying to get into linuxcnc.

To answer the question of which distro revision: if you follow the post 2 and successfully install on the older revison, I would then apply what you have learned to the newer distro’s, then tinker as much as you want.

In other words; remember you are new and unsure of yourself. Therefore don’t try new things until you have a successful install. That will build your confidence, and reduce your questions and errors.

EDIT:

For giggles and grins I just checked to see if I could edit my 3 primary Post's, and yes, yes I can. If there is enough interest I can edit these post and update them to the latest revisions. I think a .pdf would be more appropriate or perhaps leave them as they are right now.

Any suggestions, or requests? It will take me awhile because I will need to update my machine to the latest as well. Could be fun right?

I think as they are would be better because it can reach the highest audiences. [as well as dev tools such as, auto translate ect..]

Hey guys,

I am trying to install linuxcnc according to this awesome thread on my Ubuntu 16.04 32bit.
I wanted to start according to the POST 2.
I do

then I hit this
the most of the packages install smoothly, but at the end I get this output
It looks like one dependency breaks the other. I tried to delete of of the packages but I had the problems further in the installation
so I went back here. And I do not how to solve this problem to not break the further install process.

Thank you for any ideas.

jiri

sudo apt install -f

thanks for response.

I made it work before you replied by excluding python-imaging-tk and installation worked just fine...

Now I have another problem though. Latency test is going nuts.
Max jitter is on 12x10^6 ns (12 millions).

I should be on RT kernel since uname -r says: 4.8.11-rt7 .
The problem should not be in computer, cause I previously had Wheezy distribution and had max jitter 10k.

Jiri

Okey,
RTAI works well.