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I have a list of other 'tasks' that I wound up doing to get my Pi 5/Debian working more like I wanted it to:

1) Figuring out what Raspberry specific apps and config utilities were useful.

2) How to get them accessible from application menu.

If anyone is interested I can post what I have done but I'm new so my list is unlikely to be exhaustive.

I also wonder if that should be a new thread.

WOW!

People were not kidding, that editor does suck.

I'm attaching a .txt file with all the details - but I have a question for the group!I figured out how to 'kindof' get raspbian.org to work but it didn't seem like it had anything useful for a Pi 5 and/or for Debian.  Could be I just didn't find it or included the wrong tags.  I wound up adding arch=amdhf to get the errors to stop but doesn't that mean that a Debian Pi 5 doesn't need anything from there?Anyway, the file I will be attaching with have config instructions for BOTH raspberrypi.com and raspbian.org, including instructions on where/how to get the pgp security keys. 

I've never used this editor so if the file isn't attached I will try again.

Richard

I have Synaptic Package Manager installed. Looking forward to those files. Thanks for the help.

I just went through this a few days ago with my Pi 5.

I left a post on another thread about consider adding the RaspberryPi.com and Raspian.org entries to the appropriate lists so that the APT infrastructure works out of the box with the prebuilt Debian distributions from LinuxCNC.

I wasn't taking notes so I might have missed a step but you definitely need to add entries to the /etc/apt/sources.list and drop PGP signature files into /usr/share/keyrings.

I updated the files on my Pi but it will be tomorrow until I can get to it on the net. I'll try to upload those files and you can just drop them in. Then I would immediately install either gdebi or synaptic which are both great package managers.

I'm running the LinuxCNC OS provided on the LinuxCNC Downloads page:  Downloads

• LinuxCNC 2.9.2  Raspberry Pi 5 OS based on Debian Bookworm  Raspberry Pi 5 Uspace compatible with Mesa Ethernet boards. Note that SPI is not currently supported with the Pi5.

I used rpi-imager to burn the OS onto the micro SD card for my Raspberry Pi 5.  So far the OS is working fine.  I just can't get probe basic to install.

need more information on your install. are you using the linuxcnc iso? if so i think it was sent out with an older repository listing, you may need to remove it first and try uninstalling qtpyvcp probe basic completely and then use the docs to reinstall with the key allowing it to install the source address.

Is there an updated file?  I clicked on the links provided and it said the files were in owner's trash.
The problem I've been running into with installing Python3-probe-basic is that I can't seem to get the repository to be recognized.  I tried adding the repo to synaptic and also tried adding to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxcnc.list.  But there are multiple repo urls and I'm not sure if I just didn't find a valid one.

Debian dpkg-buildpackage uses perl, perl complains when running menu-config without LANGUAGE set.

So perl hasn't anything to do with Linuxcnc but when building packages, I had to build linuxcnc to have the hm2_spix driver for the Rpi5.

Why on earth are we using perl in a Linuxcnc project? What's wrong with Python? At least its supported by the project.

Perl complains if LC_ALL or LANGUAGE isn't set.

The default  settings come from userdata.txt github.com/rodw-au/rpi-img-builder-lcnc/...9.3/userdata.txt#L40
I.m not sure LANGUAGE  needs to be set for the locale if its en_US.UTF-8 as we use for the default config 

On my chrome book,  locale reports
rod@penguin:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

On my Debian PC in my office, I get 
rod@debian:~$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

 

Doesn't have an option for setting LANGUAGE.

Had to use
Then log out and login for it to take effect.

Thanks, that image was prepared by James Walker (Joco) one of the qtpyvcp developers.
All of these features can be set using sudo menu-config which brings up this menu.

 

Just checked out your new image that you linked a couple of posts ago. Video works ok when using min hdmi to DVI adapter.
Just for those of us that are a bit silly what is the correct procedure & values to setup
1: LANGAUGE (currently unset)
2: LC_ALL (currently unset)
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8" is fine.

Currently starting to test the new hm2_spix driver