Complete HOW-TO Linux Mint 18.1 32/64 RTAI or PREEMPT with RIP install or deb

Always a good idea to walk away sometimes.

There is an error here
This Yapps thing is a new dependency and I've just seen a couple of comments about it being a problem. Just click on the install button on this page and follow your nose
community.linuxmint.com/software/view/yapps2-runtime
Then rerun make

I may be doing this incorrectly

hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~ $ cd /home/hamish/linuxcnc-dev
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev $ cd debian hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev/debian $ dpkg-checkbuilddeps
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev/debian $ cd /home/hamish/linuxcnc-dev
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev $ dpkg-checkbuilddepsdpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev $

You first have to configure linuxcnc. Then you can run the check dependencies. Go back one step.

cd linuxcnc-dev
cd debian
./configure uspace
cd ..
dpkg-checkbuilddeps

Hello and thanks as suggested

hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~ $ cd /home/hamish/linuxcnc-devhamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev $ cd debian hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev/debian $ ./configure uspace
Package libxenomai-dev exists, but information about its source package
is not available. This most likely means that you do not have the
right deb-src lines in /etc/apt, or that you need to "apt-get update".
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev/debian $ cd ..
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev $ dpkg-checkbuilddeps
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory
hamish@hamish-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC ~/linuxcnc-dev $

You have to enable source code repositories as stated in the how to. Are you following any of the guides?

Excerpt from post 1&2

NOTE: You need to enable source repositories and apt-get update for the next steps using ./configure uspace. If you do not you will not be able to complete this step. Package Manager>Settings>Repositories> Check Mark - Enable Source Code Repositories.

Sorry, I must have missed checking that box, where is it?
Do I run this again as when I do it indicates multiple occurrences
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu precise main universe'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgnomeprintui2.2-dev python-support tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev