Upgrading 2.4.3 to 2.4.6

Downloaded 10.04 over a year ago, and had it working (although with no limit switches ot other goodies installed) although the bits and pieces of my "new" mill were scattered all over the garage.

Finally getting the various bits and pieces into one cabinet and am well along the path to wiring all the limit switches, relays, etc.

Got a new (to me) motherboard and installed it in a POS (point of sale) case. Installed 10.04 and 2.4.3 again and all appeared well. Then started using stepconfig to set up a setup for the mill. Have not yet got it running, after numerous attempts.

Then remembered reading that there might be a few stepconfig errors in 2.4.3. So downloaded the iso for 10.04 and 2.4.6, and burnted them to a disc. Booted my new Windows pb using the livecd and it appeared to work fine. Did not, of course, attempt to install it.

Back to the shop, and tried to install the livecd on the computer in the mill. No matter what I do, it always opens 10.04 off the hard drive, rather than off the livecd.

The building the mill is located in does NOT have internet, so can't use the obvious method of updating 2.4.3.

Is there another way to get emc2 to snag the 2.4.6 upgrades without physically moving the computer to a different building?

Thanks

Tom

BigJohnT wrote:

Download the emc2_2.4.6_i386.deb from linuxcnc.org/lucid/dists/lucid/emc2.4/binary-i386/ then copy that to your remote computer and run the package manager on it.

John

Thanks, John, that sounds simple enough. How does one run the "package manager".

Interesting situation here. I spend a good deal of time maintaining several websites, all of which are based on a Linux server. I THOUGHT I was pretty good at Linux. Very little of that knowledge applies to running Linux on my working machine.

Off topic. Will you be in Michigan this month?

Tom

it's under System/Administration/ Synaptic Package manager.
(sorry don't know the terminal command)

BigJohnT wrote:

No, I don't have any plans to be in Michigan.

John

Shame. Thought you might be in Ann Arbor for 21 through 24th. Would have been a good chance to meet you.

Tom

BigJohnT wrote:

LOL, I'm not much to meet in person... some say I'm not a people person cause I don't tell people what they want to hear.

John

I may suffer from a bit of that malady myself.

Tom

BigJohnT wrote:

I think you just have to click or double click (depends on how your system is set up) on the deb and it automagiclly starts up for you.

John

I have the above mentioned package copied to the desktop, and tried to open it with the Package Manager (at least i think I did...)

Every time I try it, I get an error message saying ~~ "This will break EMC2".

Any more ideas?

Thanks

Tom