New to Linux and CNC

John me thinks I still got a long way to go with just learning the basics and understanding Linux.
The commands in the link dont mean any thing to me at this stage.
What do you suggest I do: carry on with 10.04.4 from Ubuntu site or wait for the EU mirror with 10.04.4 &Linux???
I Gather you are also suggesting I should run the laptop with the simulator software to give it a try, etc.
The apologese for my ignorance was at the beginning of my posts.
Never was one for forums, spent most of my time at sea on small boats. Now on land, trying to get into something new.

Morning
John hopefully you can help me out once again.
I have 10.04.4LTS Lucid loaded and very impressed.
I always felt Linux was a dreaded lurgie, but I was presently surprised how easy the interface is.
The lurgie part is where does one put these commands etc.
I imagine like the old windows system that had a dos application, there is somewhere to do this.
I would like to get the simulator running.
Question: what happens if at a later stage I would like to run Linux cnc on the laptop. Would I have a conflict or would it run as another program altogether.
Can one have them both on one computer.
Question: are there some things to do when setting up 10.04.4 after it has been loaded.
Gary

while trying to install simulator. The package installer comes up with message
Error: Cannot install 'python-imaging-tk'.
If I do a wiki search there are 4 articles that come up.
I am unsure of which or what to do.
(the dreaded lurgie = gremlins, nightmare, daemons etc) bit of my own slang

Error: Cannot install 'python-imaging-tk'.

That is a valid package.

Assuming it is not a connectivity problem (server busy - down etc) try
sudo apt-get update
from a terminal

This will update your package lists and quite often fixes such problems

Then try sudo apt-get install python-imaging-tk

regards

Hi
how often should one do a linux update?
where can one get hold basic linux commands?
Which Cad/Cam programes can used with linux
Does one run a windows system with their drawing programmes and export them to their linux system.
Do these threads every get closed down or do they stay for life.
What does the unsubscribe check box do.

tks
Gary

Hi

That is 5/6 questions and you haven't said whether you were able to download python-imaging-tk

how often should one do a linux update?

apt-get update is not a linux update, it updates the package lists from when the Live CD was made, they have changed since then.

Search the forum re previous advice on updating the system.
You have installed an operating system that will support a CNC control system, not a desktop system. It does not matter if you never update it
and you must certainly never update the kernel or linuxcnc will stop working.

where can one get hold basic linux commands?

Open the Getting Started manual and go to the Linux FAQ sections for a short tutorial on terminal commands.
After that the answer is google what you want to know.

Which Cad/Cam programes can used with linux
Does one run a windows system with their drawing programmes and export them to their linux system.

You need to read and search the forum (search on left uses google and searches documentation too, search at top right just the forum)
There is a complete section on CAD/CAM and the same question was asked last week.

Do these threads every get closed down or do they stay for life.

I think they pretty much persist, there must be a capacity limit but I have no idea what it is.

What does the unsubscribe check box do.

I'll leave you to work that one out!

regards