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

gerritv wrote:

tommylight wrote:

Mike_Eitel wrote: And also Tommy dislikes windows,.......

That i do, wasted 15 years of my life with it.........:sick:

And yet here we are 26 pages of 'Mint 19.3 quick and easy installation' twists and turns Kind of ironic I think. It all makes for good/educational reading though.

That is normal on forums, over 90% of people who use this never register or bother to say thank you, that leaves some that missed a step and those are already registered and are kind enough to say a word or two.
BTW this tutorial was modified several times as i had time to find easier ways of installing it, and some off topic stuff included, so 26 pages are not much for over a years worth of posts.

I appreciate all the patience, help and work done in this thread. I wasted 10+ years with Unix (HPUX, Solaris, Sys 3/5, SGI, BSD4.1) and happily switched to Windows 7/10 but now find myself needing to use Linux to get LinuxCNC
I got it working, with help from this thread. But I don't plan to update anything now it is working. Learned that lesson more than once.

You can update it as much as you like just do not use the normal upgrade, use this:
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
This way everything is updated even LinuxCNC, but not the kernel as that would render LinuxCNC non functional.

Yes, I knew of that method. However past experience with FreeSwitch and Asterix and similar led me to the 'if I don't need the update, ignore it' as chasing the latest is not conducive to keeping stuff going.

Gerrit

Call centres ?

Nope Tommy. With apt I got that message and also fix-broken didn't work. Astomishingly I was able to get it done via Synaptics, using that broken functionality.

Please do not ask me why.
Mike