Installing LinuxCNC 2.9 or Master on Linux Mint 21

Added the tidbit about not using this for Mesa 7i96S due to LinuxCNC build being from April of this year.

cant we use the latest branch version? as an update

No, for some strange reason the buildbot deb requires Python under 3.8 and over 3.10 to work.
But you can always compile LinuxCNC on Mint 21, it takes a while though, over half hour on my Ryzen 7 3700X.

ok i get it the dependancy issues and can we compile without docs ?

Yes, the issue was fixed a while back so it works with and without docs.

tommylight wrote:

Added the tidbit about not using this for Mesa 7i96S due to LinuxCNC build being from April of this year.

The same can be said about any feature in master that has been released since the package was built, Eg wanting to run the latest version of QTplasmac.

There is nothing stopping you to compile the source  on Debian 12 Bullseye after installing the linuxcnc-uspace package. The advantage is the package installs most of the dependencies and PREEMPT_RT

Compiling linuxcnc  either to a run in place or to .debs on any version of debian is really very simple.
I did a video of it on a chromebook (because of the awesome screen capture feature) as an example