(superseeded) Linuxcnc on Linux Mint 19.3 quick and easy installation

BeagleBrainz wrote:

iso
drive.google.com/file/d/1rL_YJZqJ8sIbucN...KeN/view?usp=sharing
md5
drive.google.com/file/d/1rx9VWub9qvvXxrm...XA9/view?usp=sharing

The image has to be written as a raw image to a usb stick. Either dd in linux or win32diskimager under windows.

I can confirm that is was simple (even for me) It worked a treat used win32diskimager to make the usb. It then booted the pc I put it in as a live install then noticed the install link of the desktop

Then from a terminal I did sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

Thanks for all the hard work.

Now I would like to edit the autologin. on the previous version I used to edit the /etc.lightdm/lightde.conf file BUT I think it might be a different file to edit in this version?

this is quite off topic
and makes me as a NOOb feal 10 Sides of QUICK install on MINT
May not be the Better choice then Debian as may run into problems on 10 side postings

Thanks Clive, good to know that everything goes smooth.
I’ll look into the auto login thing today

tommylight wrote:

Clive wrote:

Now I would like to edit the autologin.

menu>administration>login window>users>automatic login.
This is for Mint Mate edition.

It gets better and better. Never even gave it a thought that I didn't need to edit a file. Go to the top of the class and give the nibs out:)

New iso coming up, includes files for qtvcp & designer with qtvcp widgets. This image with boot from grub as an iso image on a fat32 file system. In anyone is interested I can post up some instructions on creating a simple multi boot usb with out needing any third party packages.

in the interim I have a small script that pulls in the required deps.

Copy the lib & create link as per (lib is in qt5.9 directory in a tarball)
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master...ython/qtvcp/designer

Files now available, as usual tested in Vbox
md5: 86 bytes (86 bytes)
drive.google.com/open?id=1jcSdgUkSubGNo8oRt_acU_0sjqCFJZyN

iso: 2.3 GB (2340421632 bytes):
drive.google.com/open?id=17f4FhtF5hayFpumpNHrGFyJ0OQlRb9aT

Enjoy

First off I just want to thank everyone who has contributed time and knowledge to LinuxCNC installs here in the forums. Moving from a Carbide 3D Shapoko and Nomad to building a CNC powered by LinuxCNC has been a goal for the last year. I have the CNC built, just need to get LinuxCNC up and running.

My first Noob mistake was to install Wheezy with RTAI. Since my controller is a Mesa 7i76e, that didn't work. So I decided to go for a fresh install and thought I would go for Mint 19.3 with Stretch 2.9 RT-Preempt. The install didn't go as smoothly as planned (in all honesty, I started over 3 times). But I got it up and running. Then installed the RT kernal and optimized the ethernet settings per the man pages and forum suggestions. Then I went through pncconf and created a setup. When I try and launch the setup I get the following error:
Starting DISPLAY program: axis
USRMOT: ERROR: command timeout
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed

And then LinuxCNC shuts down. I searched the forums for this error, but couldn't find a resolution, so I'm hopping someone here can help. I've attached error report, hal, and ini files.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I'm still pretty green on linux.