I noticed that in the Alternate Install Methods of this page
Getting LinuxCNC
, it shows a table of distributions that one can install linuxcnc against.
I would just like to report that I was able to follow the instructions (with slight modifications, see below) on a more modern Debian Stretch image and was successful with machine control.
Code:
jacob@jcnc:~$ uname -a
Linux jcnc 4.9.0-6-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Modified instructions:
In section 7.1 Installing on Debian Wheezy (with Preempt-RT kernel), All of those directions are correct and work for Debian Stretch, except for the line
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linuxcnc.org/ wheezy base 2.7-uspace"
which needs to say 'stretch' instead of 'wheezy'.
However, that instruction could be changed to say the following:
Add the apt repository by adding the line below to a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, or to the end of the /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linuxcnc.org/ stretch base 2.7-uspace"
, because a vanilla network install doesn't seem to include the add-apt-repository wrapper.
I really think this table should be updated -- it made me run around in circles for a while because I thought only as late as wheezy was supported. If there is a better place I can report this, or if I could make a pull request somewhere, does anyone know??
