How can I get GladeVCP?

Todd Zuercher wrote:

This isn't a good answer, but it is the simplest solution for me. I have one of the older Wheezy based Linuxcnc ISO installed in a VM on the PC I develop my configs on. It has the right version of Glade installed by default. I set up the UI files there then copy them over to the machine where I want to use them.

There may be a solution for installing the GTK2 version of Glade on Buster, but I don't know it.
 

Hello, I am programming in the VM virtual machine, but when I transplant the. Galde file and py code to my industrial computer, it cannot run. It can run well in the virtual machine. I don't know what to do. The error he reported to me was that I couldn't find the library import gladevcp.makepins

You might need to install the linuxcnc-dev package

I have installed Linux CNC dev

What OS is the problem PC running?
Which version of LinuxCNC is it running?

Both PC and controller are Ubuntu systems, and PC is Linux CNC
2.8 controller is 2.9

LinuxCNC 2.9 is in the middle of converting to Python3, so there might be some issues there.
It might be best to run 2.8 on both machines.

OK, I'll try to change it back to Linux CNC 2.8. Thank you very much for your suggestion

For some reason, I decided to shoot myself in the foot and upgrade to bullseye without thinking -- I think I need to build the glade-gtk2 package - perhaps  - but I can't find the sources?

glade-gtk2
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libglib2.0-0 : Breaks: libgladeui-2-6 (< 3.22.2) but 3.22.1-4 is to be installed

 

You can try installing glade-gtk2 using the deb package here:
www.linuxcnc.org/dists/buster/base/binary-amd64/

Download the file and then sudo apt-get install ./path-to-downlaoded-file.deb

The ./ is important, it tells apt to install from a file, not from a repository.

Andy - I was looking for the sources - never did find them. I ended up going back to 'buster' for now.

There is a way to change dependencies using /etc/apt/preferences and update-alternatives, but I'm going to wait for things to end up on build-bot first.

Really appreciate all the bits you have worked on here.