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

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.

Thanks Snowgoer,

I've got a 2nd PC with MX which was installed successfully from your tutorial over a year ago.

I'll redo the MX install on that to try it out. Will be good to see any latency differences between MX and Bookworm, after doing Rods mods.

I might even reinstall Bookworm on the other PC just to prove I can repeatedly re-install from scratch successfully. Nothing worse than being left stranded without a plasma PC.

snowgoer540 wrote:

If you havent scrapped the install, try doing steps 17 and the modified step 18 I put above, then run the qtvcp script again (step 35) for good measure.

Snowgoer,

I'm very embarrassed to inform you I found a copy/paste mistake.
In my defense I tried copy/pasting the bad line again and the exact same mistake came up, so it wasn't so much a bad copy/paste technique on my part, but a flaw in the copy/paste mechanism.

I went through the install as you suggested in the quote above, yet got exactly the same problem when attempting to run the script to install. Qtvcp (no such file or directory).
So I carefully checked every letter in the file pith with the actual directory tree and found the culprit.

In the PDF tutorial there is the line written exactly like this:

35. Enter the following command: /usr/lib/python3/dist-
      packages/qtvcp/designer/install_script

However, when I copy that and paste it anywhere it changes to this:

35. Enter the following command: /usr/lib/python3/distpackages/
qtvcp/designer/install_script

Note the dist-packages has changed to distpackages (the dash is gone). That sneaky little sod has been the cause of my problems.
So I added that dash in the file path in the terminal and Qtvcp installed, and I could then start Qtplasmac without any problems, and no errors on shutdown.

So when I installed MX a year or more ago I must have typed out the file path, whereas this time I've copy/pasted it.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile modifying that line in your tutorial to this:

35. Enter the following command:
      /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/qtvcp/designer/install_script

so it copy/pastes correctly.

So I'm very sorry for missing that and taking up your time.