Kent, after a few days, could you let us know how well it works for you. I am itching to upgrade to 10.04 as well. Most of my other ubuntu machines are at 10.04.
i On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Kent A. Reed <knbr...@erols.com> wrote: > Jeff Eppler wrote: >> I'm pleased to announce that we've made it easier to try emc2 on Ubuntu >> 10.04: just download and run a shell script, which will download all the >> packages necessary for emc2. This requires a working network >> connection, and depending on the speed of your connection will take >> several minutes to complete. >> >> Instructions are here: >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Ubuntu10.04PackageNotes >> >> Jeff >> > > This is great. > > I have just a minor nitpick with the shell script emc-install.sh. About > 7 lines down, the raw "cat > /etc/..." should be "sudo cat > /etc/...." > > Otherwise, if one follows the instructions, the script ends in failure > with the message "E: Couldn't find package emc2". > > Looking back through the console output, one sees that cat was denied > permission to write /etc/apt/sources.linux.d/linuxcnc.lst. > > I was in a hurry so I just reran the script as "sudo sh emc-install.sh". > > From there, it was a dead-easy installation to a fresh, bare Ubuntu > 10.04. I started the script, went to make coffee, and found a full-up > EMC2 installation waiting for me when I returned to the console. > > Target computer: homebuilt from Intel D945GCLF2 (1.6GHz Atom 330) with > 2GB RAM, onboard video. > > Thanks and a tip of the hat to all involved. > > Regards, > Kent > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
