On Wednesday 21 May 2014 16:42:04 a k did opine And Gene did reply: > Hi > i download, burn cd and install > Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and LinuxCNC (current release) > and it is not working > it shows > print file information > debug information > kernel messages > > where do i need to look for problem?
This is not much info to clear the clouds in my crystal ball. So, did you configure the network when you installed? This is vital in order to get all the latest fixes. Once that has been done, run the update-manager from the system menu, give it your user password, then click check, and let it update all the security fixes for the last 4 years? You may have to do that in stages, rechecking before quitting it, and repeat till it has no more updates to pull and install. This will not update the cd's version of EMC due to the forced renaming mentioned below. Also, do a "sudo apt-get install synaptic" which is, if you want to install something new, is a much better package manager. Use it to install gedit, a pretty decent text editor you will use quite a bit. At this point, I should mention that due to a C&D from another outfit that claims the EMC logo is theirs, EMC has been renamed to "LinuxCNC", which will requite that you edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to update the repository's names when used in the file to tell the update-manager or synaptic, where to go get the updates to LinuxCNC itself. Because the names version numbers of LinuxCNC no longer match: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list, and make its bottom group of LinuxCNC related links look like this: # deb http://www.linuxcnc.org/emc2 lucid base emc2.5 # deb-src http://www.linuxcnc.org/emc2 lucid base emc2.5 # deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ lucid master-rt deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ lucid v2.5_branch-rt # to embed camera output in axis # deb http://psha.org.ru/debian/ lucid contrib # deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-proposed restricted main multiverse universe The last line is word wrapped but is actually all on one line. And is only needed where you have a camera installed on your mill, so you can put a # in front of the last 2 lines 'deb' for the time being. Like the first 3 lines above, which is called "commenting them out" Then, use synaptic to remove the 4 year old version of EMC, and install the latest 2.5.4 version of LinuxCNC. Then once that is done, look at the applications menu pulldown. Does it have a CNC category? It should. Because LinuxCNC is a swiss army knife, it must be configured to match your machinery and its abilities. But get to this point & we'll help with that. I have probably laid out half a days work above unless you have a very big network pipe. And I hope I haven't left anything out, nearly 80 yo wet ram does that occasionally. ;-) If it falls over, come back with what you have done, and where it fell over. "It doesn't work" is not enough description. I hope this helps. > thank you > aram Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
