LinuxCNC Install using MX Linux 19.4 - Geared Toward New Users - Discussion

Awesome, cheers Phil.
So hopefully I can just enter my config and I'll be up and running again.

Rod,
thanks very much for the assistance.
I went away from "Xcfe sesssion" and back to "Gnome on xorg" because the Xcfe session kept the Debian desktop icons at the bottom of the screen when I started Qtplasmac. Those icons then cover info at the bottom of the Qtplasmac screen.

snowgoer540 wrote:

I do think someone recently used this guide though with success.
Are you sure you didn’t miss a step maybe? Or a copy paste error? I’ll report back once I get some time to check it out.

I don't think I stuffed up anywhere. 

When doing "sudo apt upgrade" the install paused asking me whether I want to update grub. I selected "Y" every time, so no idea if I did the correct thing there LOL. 

To avoid typo errors with terminal commands I also went through each of your PDF files, and copied the commands to a text file, so I could copy and paste in the terminal window, seeing as I couldn't copy and paste from the PDF files.

Its all good, Debian will remember your selection on the gear.
In Xfce, the bottom buttons should reappear if you cursor to the bottom edge. It is annoying

Also don't worry about being behind with versions. Thre is now a buildbot for bookworm debs.  buildbot2.highlab.com/
I have not had time to work out how to install them nicely but I have downloaded and installed the latest debs for linuxcnc from this folder there
buildbot2.highlab.com/debian/dists/bulls...uspace/binary-amd64/
 I've used them a couple of times now
you need the latest ones starting with linuxcnc-uspace and linuxcnc-uspace-dev
you can install them with sudo dpkg -i

But give it another day or so cos I saw Phill pushed some changes today.
 

Great info Rod, thanks very much for everything.

I have no idea if the Qtplasmac user manual gets updated whenever Phill makes a change / improvement, but I just printed out the 70+ page manual before reading your post LOL.

If an update requires doc changes then we do it at the same time. Today's was only a bug fix so doesn't require doc changes.

beefy wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote:

I do think someone recently used this guide though with success.
Are you sure you didn’t miss a step maybe? Or a copy paste error? I’ll report back once I get some time to check it out.

I don't think I stuffed up anywhere. 

When doing "sudo apt upgrade" the install paused asking me whether I want to update grub. I selected "Y" every time, so no idea if I did the correct thing there LOL. 

To avoid typo errors with terminal commands I also went through each of your PDF files, and copied the commands to a text file, so I could copy and paste in the terminal window, seeing as I couldn't copy and paste from the PDF files.

I did a quick install on a virtual machine this morning. Everything worked fine, except for one thing... There was a missing package when I did sudo apt upgrade. So for step 18 I had to do sudo apt upgrade --fix-missing instead.

Choosing Y is correct for all the things. You do have to change to install package maintainer's version in the one drop down but it should not affect you.

I suspect the missing package might have prevented you from getting all the updates necessary. It wouldnt update for me, it kept failing. So, hopefully this is your issue too...

I'll try to make some time to do a guide for MX21 in the next few. No promises though