LinuxCNC on Linux Mint 20 quick and nearly easy install

tommylight wrote:

rootboy wrote: If your apt-get update fails on LinuxCNC buildbot, go to: buildbot.linuxcnc.org and add the signing key to your apt keychain.

Dang, i forgot to add that, will remedy immediately !
Thanks for the report.

No problem! And thank you for the Mint 20 option.

It has become an obsession !
You are welcomed.

Did anyone try compiling run in place? I wad unsuccessful. There seems to be a problem with python versions. Some packages require 2.7.15 but python 2.7.18 is installed. Everything brakes. I have downgraded to 19.3 and there was no problem.

Tady wrote: Did anyone try compiling run in place?

Not that i am aware of.
Everything is moving to Python 3 and that is causing some major headaches .

I get that.. Support for python2 is beeing droped. But it seems that linuxcnc still uses python2.
Anyway if I run check dependencies there it says python needs to be installed. And if i install it apt removes some packages i think one of them is python-lxml and inkscape. And some others.
And if I install inkscape or any of the remived packages. Apt removes python. So basicaly i'm going in circles.
Some packages require older version of python. I don't know.

Edited the original post, removed 2 steps from the procedure.
So far it worked on 4 PC's without a single issue.
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As for "run in place" i have not used that in quite a while, so i can not help, but i do recall that RIP was easier to make work with Mint 17 and 18.