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tommylight wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote:

phillc54 wrote: Won't the LinuxCNC packages from the buildbot run on Mint?

I’m not sure, I think Rob said it wouldn’t. I’m willing to try (I don’t know the repercussions...).

I always use Mint with Mate or XFCE, and i always use the buildbot packages for Stretch, it always works.
Yesterday it worked for a friend through the phone, and he is very challenged in the "follow directions" department, example:
Me: right click on the linuxcnc-userspace-something-something-amd64.deb and clock on save link as. Now double click on that from the file explorer, what does it say?
Him: Nothing!
Me:did it open a new window?
Him: yes
Me: what's on that window?
Him:nothing, same links as on that page i downloaded from.
Me: not the bloody save page as from the menu, right click on the link, right click..........
It was a long day, but he got it eventually.

LMAO. I am willing to switch over, though I’m not really sure what I would have to do to get rid of the RIP version.

phillc54 wrote:

That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying. One more question about the RIP (for now ) what about pncconf? Is that always running from the installed version?

All executables will run from where your environment PATH is pointed.

You can check this yourself, open up two terminals, in one terminal type:

Code:

$ which pncconf

in the other terminal type:

Code:

$ source ~/linuxcnc-dev/scripts/rip-environment $ which pncconf

you will see they are both from different locations.

Ok, starting to get it. But how come when I uninstalled the installed version of Linuxcnc it all blew up and stopped working?

Edit: maybe I just tried to run pncconf from the wrong place?

snowgoer540 wrote: I am willing to switch over, though I’m not really sure what I would have to do to get rid of the RIP version.

rm -rf ~/linuxcnc-dev

snowgoer540 wrote: Ok, starting to get it. But how come when I uninstalled the installed version of Linuxcnc it all blew up and stopped working?

Your links were still pointing to the installed version?

phillc54 wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: Ok, starting to get it. But how come when I uninstalled the installed version of Linuxcnc it all blew up and stopped working?

Your links were still pointing to the installed version?

Probably yes. And I couldn’t find pncconf. Well I found it, but running it didn’t do anything.

snowgoer540 wrote:

phillc54 wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: Ok, starting to get it. But how come when I uninstalled the installed version of Linuxcnc it all blew up and stopped working?

Your links were still pointing to the installed version?

Probably yes. And I couldn’t find pncconf. Well I found it, but running it didn’t do anything.

Did you run rip-environment before hand and did you run pncconf from the same terminal session?

If you answer yes to both then I have no idea...