Installation on Debian Jessie

Based on this announcement , I decided to go with Debian Jessie for my new install (32 bits).

Compared to Wheezy, beyond the fact that Jessie is more current, it also allows you to choose a Desktop Environment at install time which is really convenient. I decided to go with LXDE as it is quite small, which is all I need for my 10 year old box! No fancy features, but I don't care as it will be dedicated to LinuxCNC.

Now as this RTAI kernel is relatively recent, it seems that the documentation has not been updated yet, and being unfamiliar with LinuxCNC, I had to make some guesses to find the right repositories and packages to install. So if it can help someone, here is what I did:

For the repos (/etc/apt/sources.list):
You will need to import the keys from both repos
Then for the packages:
Reboot, and you should be good to go

Note that if you decide to reboot immediately after the kernel install, you will have to reboot (or at least logout) as well after installing LinuxCNC, otherwise LinuxCNC won't start.

Edit: Wanted to post this in 'Install', but looks like I picked the wrong section :blush: , so if somebody can move it to the right place ...

Hi there,

Thanks Amedee for this guide.

I done this and its working now, i needed this Kernel to work on J1800 Graphics, so i can rotate and do few things with monitor. Just wanted to add that 2.7.7 Compiles and works, downloading copy from git, if someone wants the deb package i made for this Kernel, just ask for it, but i don't know how to upload or where to do it. (original version installing from this guide is 2.7.3, with some problems as for example bad P value on PNCCONF inis)

Best Regards,
Azeri.

Unfortunately that announcement about support for Jessie with RTAI may have been a little premature. (Someone really should add a note to that page with updated info.) Some time not long after that announcement was made it was found that that RTAI kernel version was crashing buildbot, so it was shut down and pre-compiled versions of Linuxcnc are no longer available for it. It is unfortunate because I also feel that Jessie is much more polished/better release otherwise than Wheezy.