Jeff Eppler wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that we've made it easier to try emc2 on Ubuntu > 10.04: just download and run a shell script, which will download all the > packages necessary for emc2. This requires a working network > connection, and depending on the speed of your connection will take > several minutes to complete. > > Instructions are here: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Ubuntu10.04PackageNotes > > Jeff >
This is great. I have just a minor nitpick with the shell script emc-install.sh. About 7 lines down, the raw "cat > /etc/..." should be "sudo cat > /etc/...." Otherwise, if one follows the instructions, the script ends in failure with the message "E: Couldn't find package emc2". Looking back through the console output, one sees that cat was denied permission to write /etc/apt/sources.linux.d/linuxcnc.lst. I was in a hurry so I just reran the script as "sudo sh emc-install.sh". From there, it was a dead-easy installation to a fresh, bare Ubuntu 10.04. I started the script, went to make coffee, and found a full-up EMC2 installation waiting for me when I returned to the console. Target computer: homebuilt from Intel D945GCLF2 (1.6GHz Atom 330) with 2GB RAM, onboard video. Thanks and a tip of the hat to all involved. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
