For those wanting to install LinuxCNC on Precise 12.04, search the old messages in the emc-users list for messages with this subject line:
"LinuxCNC on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 with RTAI" Seb made the announcement of a way to install this months ago and it worked well except for a couple of issues that I ran into that I sent back to the list in an email. So whoever wants to install LinuxCNC on 12.04 can do it NOW. No excuses. Read the message string first, then do the install. I'm no Linux Guru (although a wannabe), but there is plenty of information out there on how to do a git pull and compile of the master. Andy, I think you are being nice regarding Unity. Someone smoked too much of something and then continued to code anyway when they did Unity. Synaptic Manager does not come along with 12.04, I had to install it. (A glaring ommision ) >>But that seems to require linux-guru work to set up the key. Already figured out. The "how to" is in the same message string that I mentioned above. This list is a huge wealth of information. (Thanks everyone! :-) Here is a hint on how to get by the fear of screwing up when it comes to LinuxCNC; Once you get something running, or you make significant progress, make a backup of your systems hard drive! That way if you fat finger a command and screw things up, you can revert to what you had before and not lose your work. If you are a Newbie, and fear DD (as I did originally) then pull the hard drive and use a Windows machine to image the hard drive contents to another drive. The windows program called R-Drive Image works fine to backup Linux disks. It is as easy to use as Acronis. A full image backup of LinuxCNC installed on 12.04 takes about 10 minutes. A restore takes about the same amount of time. Dave On 4/3/2014 4:45 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 3 April 2014 21:09, Stephen Dubovsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andy, >> You talking about doing it this way? >> http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ > Yes, though you can add the same info to the package manager in the GUI. > > In Lucid you can find Synaptic from the Administration menu. > > In Precise this is probably most easily done (because Unity is just strange) > by: > Click Dash Home and look for Synaptic using the search box. (blame > Canonical for that one, not LinuxCNC). > (You might also need to install Synaptic from the Ubuntu Software > Centre. I hadn't realised that) > > In the package manager select Settings -> Repositories -> other > software and "Add". > Then paste the required line from buildbot.linuxcnc.org > > I just tried this and got a sim version on Precise-64. The RT version > wouldn't install without the RT kernel. > (itself available using: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC_On_Ubuntu_Precise ) > But that seems to require linux-guru work to set up the key. > (You can use the "deb" line in the Package Manager gui, but it doesn't > like that it is unsigned, and the GUI key manager wants a file) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
