Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 January 2015 23:12:22 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine And Gene did reply: On 01/01/2015 08:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: So, what amd64 flavor of Ubuntu stands the best chance of working with the existing repo's? And which name do I then put in /etc/apt/sources.list? I run

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/02/2015 08:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2015 23:12:22 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine I personally prefer Debian Wheezy, which works out of the box using the new Live/Install Image. Instructions for that are here:

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 January 2015 10:19:12 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine And Gene did reply: On 01/02/2015 08:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2015 23:12:22 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine I personally prefer Debian Wheezy, which works out of the box using the new Live/Install

[Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings, and I hope everyone will have a better year in 2015; Mint 17.1 LTS with cinnamon gui has arrived, called Rebecca. It looks decent enough but the synaptic shipped for a package manager, is quite broken. No mark all updates button for starters, and while it does identify a group of

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/01/2015 10:12 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 01/01/2015 08:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: So, what amd64 flavor of Ubuntu stands the best chance of working with the existing repo's? And which name do I then put in /etc/apt/sources.list? I run LinuxCNC on Ubuntu Precise (12.04) on some of

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-01 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/01/2015 08:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: So, what amd64 flavor of Ubuntu stands the best chance of working with the existing repo's? And which name do I then put in /etc/apt/sources.list? I run LinuxCNC on Ubuntu Precise (12.04) on some of my machines. I'm not a fan of the Ubuntu UI, but