Installing LinuxCNC 2.8 on Debian 11

This is a good summary of getting going on Bullseye (11)
www.qtpyvcp.com/install/bullseye.html

It was actually very easy to get LinuxCNC going on Debian 11.

Opened the Synaptic Package Manager and searched for linux-image and selected the latest RT image and installed. Next a reboot and your in the RT kernel.

Cloned the LinuxCNC repo. Open a terminal in the directory and did the following.
Then right clicked on the deb and let Gdebi install it.

JT

Oh yea I had to install mate-menu so I could uncheck then recheck all the CNC menu items so they would show up in the right place.

JT

Or you can just download the deb and use Gdebi to install.

github.com/jethornton/emcd11

JT

Looks like there's a dependency issue with ghostscript:

sysadmin@cnc1:~$ uname -a
Linux cnc1 5.10.0-10-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
sysadmin@cnc1:~$ sudo apt install libudev-dev bwidget intltool libboost-python-dev libepoxy-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libmodbus-dev libeditreadline-dev libtk-img libusb-1.0-0-dev libxmu-dev netcat python3-dev python3-xlib tcl8.6-dev tclx tk8.6-dev yapps2 asciidoc dblatex docbook-xsl dvipng groff imagemagick inkscape python3-lxml source-highlight w3c-linkchecker xsltproc texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-spanish texlive-latex-recommended asciidoc-dblatex texlive-xetex
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'tclx8.4' instead of 'tclx'
python3-dev is already the newest version (3.9.2-3).
python3-dev set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
dvipng : Depends: ghostscript but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

oops, nvm, it turns out the /etc/apt/sources.list needs to have the security repository added so it looks like this: