Gene, Read this link <https://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/uspace/rpi4-emc.html <https://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/uspace/rpi4-emc.html>>. It gives great directions. Once I slowed down and followed them it all worked.
Alan > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 05:41:19 -0400 > From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: [Emc-developers] upgrading python on raspbian > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I'm not a python expert by a long ways. > > I have built the linuxcnc-master, which is the development branch of > linuxcnc, a machine control program to run most metal carving machines. > Lathes, milling machines, anything you can motorize, LinuxCNC can run. > > This requires a preempt-rt kernel which I've managed to build and > install, all on a pi-4b running raspbian buster, the armfh-v7l version > of debian 10.1. > > But linuxcnc is quite elderly code, some of it going back to before there > was a linux, so despite being actively developed right now for x86 type > hardware but has quite a list of missing dependencies I cannot satisfy > from the raspbian repos. > > They are: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > linuxcnc-uspace : Depends: python2.7-glade2 but it is not installable or > python-glade2 but it is not going to be installed > Depends: python-gtksourceview2 but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: python-vte but it is not installable > Depends: python-gst0.10 but it is not installable > Depends: python-xlib but it is not going to be installed > Depends: python-gtkglext1 but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: python-configobj but it is not going to be > installed > Recommends: hostmot2-firmware-all but it is not installable > > Can anyone supply a list of python3 packages that will cover the > functions contained in the above list?, and I will attempt to edit the > linuxcnc srcs to use the more modern code base? > > Ignore the hostmot2-firmware-all package as its available, and may not > be actually required with the interface card in actual use. It has its > own fpga firmware already installed. > > Thank you all. > > 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) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
