I realised earlier that I have been using a version of Machinekit packaged for the BBB by Robert C. Nelso. It seems like there is a version from May this year so I will have a play with that (https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_9_.28Stretch.29_-_Monthly)
On Friday, 27 November 2020 at 17:37:45 UTC Martin Berriman wrote: > Thanks Brad, I just spotted the messages on Gitter too :-) > I'm confused as to why EMCApplication is the preferred front end rather > than Machinekit-CNC but hey ho. > > I'm planning to start with a fresh Debian install (probably Buster) and it > then it seems I need to install Machinekit-HAL followed by EMCApplication. > Are you running on BBB too? > > I'm starting to wonder whether I should just stick with my ancient version > of Machinekit which just works... > On Friday, 27 November 2020 at 17:15:58 UTC sliptonic wrote: > >> Hi Martin, >> I've been ranting here about the sorry state of the project and the >> difficulty finding packages/information that is current. I also posted to >> one of the matrix rooms (gitter) and got a helpful response from cerna >> pointing me to a new initiative here: >> https://github.com/machinekit/EMCApplication >> >> This looks to be getting some attention from the development side. So >> far I'm trapped in dependency hell so I can't say whether it actually >> works. Everything appears to be debian specific but LMDE lacks at least >> one critical package python3-avahi so it may not be debian enough. >> >> On Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 8:42:49 AM UTC-6 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, I need some advice. >>> >>> I am running a really old version of MachineKit (ver 0.1) on a >>> BeagleBoneBlack controlling my Denford Triac. >>> >>> It has worked really well for years however it feels like it's time to >>> upgrade to a newer version (I originally started with EMC2 on a PC). >>> >>> I have spent some time looking at the Machinekit github repo and I now >>> understand that machinekit has been split in to HAL and CNC. >>> >>> That's fine however when I follow the links to those two repos, I can >>> only find packages on the HAL repo (for ubuntu and debian). >>> >>> There do not seem to be any packages on the CNC repo - is this >>> deliberate? - do I need to build from source? >>> >> -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/machinekit/9488b398-5765-49dd-846c-bb866da0014dn%40googlegroups.com.
