Ubuntu: Installation - Heeks/heekscnc GitHub Wiki
Introduction
There are 3 ways to use HeeksCNC suite:
- The easiest is to use PPA to install directly Ubuntu packages
- If you want to build it locally, it recommended to use Debian packaging way
- Or you can build it using CMake, the regular way
Use PPA (Personal Package Archives)
Stable version
Add CAM PPA to your repositories list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neomilium/cam
Update your packages list:
sudo apt-get update
Install HeeksCNC:
sudo apt-get install heekscnc
Development version
HeeksCNC and related tools (HeeksCAD, libarea, OpenCAMLib) are daily packaged in heekscnc-devel PPA.
Note: this PPA provides development versions of HeeksCNC, HeeksCAD, libarea and OpenCAMLib.
Add heekscnc-devel PPA to your repositories list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neomilium/heekscnc-devel
Update your packages list:
sudo apt-get update
Install HeeksCNC:
sudo apt-get install heekscnc