Custom Mint-19.2 with Linuxcnc

Mint 19.2


View menu, show machine limits does nothing ????
It works here.

Welcome to a respin of Linux Mint 19.2 MATE
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• New 1st March 2020 21:48]
• Updated packages at above creation
• Linuxcnc Version linuxcnc_2.8.0~pre1.5482.g7302cc1ba_amd64
• pncconf will work with firmware in /lib/firmware/hm2
• New desktop shortcut to Linuxcnc Forums
• New desktop shortcut to first page of Linuxcnc forum thread for this iso
• New desktop shortcut to Linuxcnc github
• New desktop shortcut to install deps for building Linuxcnc, click and run once
• Renamed this file to respin-20200301.txt & moved to /etc/linuxmint
• New desktop shortcut to open this file with geany
• Removed CNC Menu item pointing to html docs & html docs removed
• update lsb Description: Linuxcnc Powered by Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
  
  
• New 27 February 2020 11:14
• ISO is now UEFI bootable
• Moved this file to $HOME/Desktop


• New 22 February 2020 22:04
• QTVCP is now included
• Glade3.8.6 has been included
• HTML Docs have been included and added to CNC Menu
• $HOME/utils/bin/get_linuxcnc_build_deps.sh has been included
• Running this script by
  Code:

  sh ~/utils/bin/get_linuxcnc_build_deps.sh
• will download and install the dependencies to build linuxcnc form source
• JT's excellent tutorial can be found here to get sources from git and compiling
• www.gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/uspace/linuxmint19-emc.html


• Original Release
• Linux Mint 19.2 with RT_PREEMPT
• Linuxcnc v2.8 from sources dated 15 Feb 2020
• Geany, gFTP & Midnight commander included
• Gimp isn't the default program to open pdfs
• Initramfs modified to work when booted from a vfat filesystem, ie supports Multiboot
• No support for qtvcp but can be added later
• Mesaflash and limited hostmot2 firmware included
• If booting stalls on Regenerating SSL certifcates please press shift, on a VM make sure the keyboard is captured

Please use win32diskimager if using a windows machine to write image to disk.
In Linux dd is recommended.

Unlike other images I posted this has been created using a virgin install of Mint 19.2 on real hardware.
To apply updates to fresh install open a terminal and use the following, this should not upgrade the kernel.

Iso Image:
No longer available do not ask for access

MD5Sum:
No longer available do not ask for access

Many thanks to all who have downloaded, test, reported bugs and helped.

All issues and support should be directed to this thread.
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...t-19-2-with-linuxcnc

Thats unbelievable!
Curious why you removed HTML docs?

Great work!

When you build the debs, there’s no option to build the HTML docs. The Debian packaging setup doesn’t allow for packaging those docs so to add them it has to be done manually. The knock on affect being if you upgrade from, say 2.8 to 2.9, the 2.8 HTML docs will still be there.
Now it would be great if when doing the debian/configure dance if you could request for the HTML docs and have them in with the doc packages or a seperate package. I’ll look at the build process, see how it does it’s dance and have a go at modifying, just for my own edumacation.
The script for installing the build deps needs fancying up, maybe with something a bit more GUI ish.
There is a little niggle with the gcode HTML JavaScript. Which I’ll describe once I get to the laptop......which means get up lol

Just an observation. I tried Cinnamon because I liked the look of it better but it kept pegging the both cores of the processor so I went back to Mate. This was on 19.3.

That's why I'm not working with Cinnamon (wasn't a fan of the look either), just MATE for 19.2 & XFCE for 19.3 as they were the ISO's I had on my computer when I started.
I'm more familiar with MATE & XFCE so I didn't have to muddle around another desktop environment.
Just a personal thing I would rather use XFCE as it is lighter weight than MATE (MATE is my choice for all my GP boxes and laptops), but the consensus is MATE is more user friendly. And to be fair these ISOs aren't meant for use as a general purpose machine; in saying that some will get upset if they can't also use it in that manner as well.
Most of the things I've gone with are personal eg Installing Geany, Midnight Commnader (I love the editor with MC) and gFTP (mc has a ftp client but the ssh client is so great) as I reckon it's a great ftp client. Some things I've added are just shortcut to some web resources and to help install the full development dependencies to do a build of linuxcnc.