The following is the recipe I
believe I followed. (I I had success with it in an earlier install). But at this point I've tried other things like the suggestions offered here...
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Installing LinuxCNC 2.8 on Debian 11
Installing LinuxCNC 2.8 on Debian 11
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Installing LinuxCNC
I changed my process and upgraded to the unstable branch by following some instructions on the Debian site
From a basic install of Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Code:
sudo apt install geany curl
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
make sure any lines containing cd are commented out with a #
replace any reference to bullseye, buster or stable with unstable eg:
Code:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
save and exit geany, then
Code:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install linuxcnc-uspace linuxcnc-uspace-dev mesaflash
reboot
type uname -a
Last line is to check PREEMPT-RT kernel is running as its installed by the install
Linuxcnc should be in the menus or open a terminal and type:linuxcnc
If you need to update to the latest version of master, you need to install from source but there are far fewer dependencies to install.
Note I did not install the docs as thats quite time consuming and we already have a slightly earlier version of them on the system. If you want them, remove the no-docs flag to ./configure
Code:
cd ~
mkdir /dev
cd dev
git clone https::/github.com/linuxcnc/linuxcnc.git
cd linuxcnc/debian
./configure uspace no-docs
cd ..
sudo apt install debhelper-compat dh-python autoconf gettext intltool libboost-python-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmodbus-dev libeditreadline-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libxmu-dev python3-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev yapps2
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i linuxcnc-uspace_ (tab)
Optionally install the dev package for mesaflash, halcompile, ethercat etc.
Code:
sudo dpkg -i linuxcnc-uspace-dev(tab)
This moved my version of QTplasmac from 1.222.178 when I did it.Note that opening an older sim version of QTplasmac generates an error with a missing .so file for the torch simulation.
The solution is to create a new sim by selecting from the Sample Configurations
To subsequently upgrade to the latest version of linuxcnc master[code]cd ~/dev/linuxcnc/src
git pull
cd ..
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i linuxcnc-uspace_ (tab)optionallysudo dpkg -i linuxcnc-uspace-dev(tab)[code]
(on buster! with a RIP) }