DebianInstall - rmu75/linuxcnc-wiki GitHub Wiki

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date: '2009-06-20T17:15:57' title: DebianInstall

Step 1, get debian Etch by the usual net or cd based installers

Step 2 add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

 deb <http://www.linuxcnc.org/emc2/> dapper emc2
 deb-src <http://www.linuxcnc.org/emc2/> dapper emc2

then do: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install emc2-axis

Step 3: relax.

Step 4: reboot. make sure uname -r says " 2.6.15-magma" and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot the realtime kernel by default.

Step 5: type 'emc' at the prompt.

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You may wish to compile the latest version of emc2 from Git.

 sudo apt-get build-dep emc2-axis

edit /usr/realtime*/bin/rtai-config to say: RTAI_CC="gcc-4.0" instead of RTAI_CC="gcc"

then follow the instructions on Installing_EMC2