How do I Update to 2.10

Hi, 

I am working on a project that requires me to have LinuxCNC version 2.10 because I need to be able to use periodm.  

I have found this post here  forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...ate-from-2-9-to-2-10
As well as this document here  www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/pdf/LinuxCNC_Getting_Started.pdf

And I am still not able to figure out how to get 2.10. 


Under the Synaptic Package Manager -> Repositories I am unable to find the 'Other Softwares' tab and cannot find how to add it this way. 

Under the link to do so from memory there is not a file for 2.10. 

At this location  /etc/apt/sources.list.d there is not a single file or folder (and don't think they are hidden but I might be wrong).


These are the dead-ends I have chased down so far.  I would really appreciate if someone could help me figure this out/point me in the right direction. I am a hardware guy and software hurts my brain so bare with me if I a slow please. 

Btw, here is some more info. I am trying to use 'apt' to update the software.  I am running bookworm. The output of 'uname -r' is 6.1.0-10-rt-amd64. 

Thank you. 

Best,
-Dylan

Update: I am getting a similar error every direction I try to do this from.  The error is similar to 'Could not get lock on /var/lib.dpkg/lock-frontend. It is help by process 1736 (synaptic)'

Does anyone have any idea what is goin on with this? lol

make sure you close the synaptic package manager window before you try to update from the terminal.

Hi Aciera, 

Yes, that was a pretty silly mistake I made. I figured that out and closed it. I didn't want to post again until I was really stuck.  I was finally able to get 2.10 downloaded.  It was a little painful and I fed a lot of data from the other forum post into chatGPT and we had to update a key and make a file.  But it seems to be working. 

It did give me an error when I opened the GUI, I think this is related to gcode image that it loads up during startup as that is now missing? I am able to open the GUI after exiting the warning though.  Hopefully this warning does not cause issues. 

For now I am going to call this a success unless someones has a concern about said error. 

Thank you.

Best,
-Dylan