Probe_Basic Install

also another thing i just noticed. after doing all that the applications window/ cnc/linuxcnc is gone... only options now are documentation and G-code Quick-Reference. Guess its time to reinstall OS

I'd recommend starting from scratch. I can't reproduce your error. Sorry. I wish I could think of something more helpful.

Additionally you mention using your linux experience. That's great, but I've found that sometimes my linux experience leads me to take shortcuts and make assumptions instead of following instructions literally. One of the reasons I made that video was to walk a person through the installation step by step without jumping ahead, doing things out of order or (in my case) switching to root to avoid having to type sudo. I hope you get it worked out. I'm working on hardware this weekend, so I hope to get my axes all installed.

Thank you for joining the discussion here. I hope all your hardware integrations go smoothly. I have not signed as root for any steps along the way. Ive gotten a little further along with the install.

one thing i did notice... when copying the xsession file, I had to complete it using sudo. any other time i used CP the file would not show using ls. after sudo it seems to be in the correct location.

I seem to have gotten closer. QTPYVCP seems to be installed properly now. i can run editvcp probe_basic and QT designer actually launches. Though I get an error:

{
The enumeration-type property horizontalScrollBarPolicy could not be read.
}

any insight?

Still not getting probe_basic to launch from linuxcnc launcher. I can almost taste it

I suspect you have a mixed installation of python 2.7 and python 3.....

Linuxcnc 2.8.2 iso is python 2.7 (and GTK2)

If you installed the master branch of qtpyvcp that will be a python3 install

Then if you install the master branch of probe basic ..... that is python2.7.....

I am trialing a Debian Bullseye (native python 3) + linuxCNC master install + qtpyvcp + probe basic (python3 branch) + probe basic conversational gcode (python 3) install.

I'm happy to walk you through it if you want (most of it is actually on the qtpyvcp installation instructions..... what they don't tell you is the probe basic master branch is actually python 2.7! and you need to install the python 3 branch using th -b python3 switch for git.