Todd Zuercher wrote: If you have your heart set on Mint, Why not try LMDE3 (it is based off Stretch).
Download and install that, then using Synaptic install "linux-image-4.9.0-4-rt" (686 or AMD64 which ever suits your PC), then reboot into the new kernel and add the Linuxcnc and Linuxcnc's buildbot repos for Stretch and install Linuxcnc. (all using Synaptic) There should be no special hoops to jump through.
I installed the kernel and then proceeded to the tutorial to install LinuxCNC. All good, right up until the last step when I try to right click in file manager. The package installer has an unmet dependency...which is weird because when I dpkg-checkbuilddeps I get nothing and when I followed newbynobi's method I was able to get a rip version of LinuxCNC running which would indicate that all dependencies have been met? or at least installed. I'm sure that I've done something wrong just not sure what. This is way out of my wheel house, any help is greatly appreciated.
I am having a little trouble putting LinuxCNC on a new laptop. Everything runs smoothly according to your instructions for installing up to "debuild -uc -us", when it fails. dpkg-checkbuilddeps returns no missing dependencies.
@footpetaljones
This is the same problem that I'm having...Best I can figure its looking for a package named python-gst0.10. If you try sudo apt-get install python-gst0.10 you get an error saying that there are no likely candidates for install...hmm.
Then I thought that there might be an issue with having multiple kernels installed and that the incorrect version of the files were being downloaded or possibly missing incorrect header files. I tried to uninstall the generic kernel and totally messed that up. Now when I try to update it says that linux mint is no longer signed and cannot be updated from the repository. Going to try a fresh install tonight and try,try again.
