(superseeded) Linuxcnc on Linux Mint 19.3 quick and easy installation

Start Linuxcnc from the meny and choose whatever config, it will ask to save it so say yes, it makes the Linuxcnc folder in the home directory, inside there should be the config folder so copy your config there.

Sorry, got it work, my mistake
clicked wrong packets
/linuxcnc-uspace-dev_2.9.0~pre0.768.ga8fe34c55_amd64.deb

Samuelx wrote: Sorry, got it work, my mistake
clicked wrong packets
/linuxcnc-uspace-dev_2.9.0~pre0.768.ga8fe34c55_amd64.deb

Nice!

Thanks for everyone's input on this, I have found the above is really a very easy pathway to get a system going for LinuxCNC.

One thing which may assist, in my situation, I had very slow boot times with the 4.16.12-rt5-kona-rt_amd64 kernel.

Using the 4.14.28-rt23-kona-rt_amd64 from the same page resolved this.

Latency testing results are unchanged.

Nitram wrote: One thing which may assist, in my situation, I had very slow boot times with the 4.16.12-rt5-kona-rt_amd64 kernel.

Using the 4.14.28-rt23-kona-rt_amd64 from the same page resolved this.

I did notice that, and the same thing with all RT kernels i compiled lately, but this has a bit better latency on same hardware.
Thank you for reporting your findings.

Thanks for this solution, I managed to Install LinuxCNC on a new Linux Mint 19.2 installation, now identifying itself as Linux lab-CNC 4.16.12-rt5-kona-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT.

To develop G-code programs, I'd like to install a sim version on my laptop, which also runs Linux Mint 19.2
I downloaded

buildbot.linuxcnc.org/~buildmaster/dists...0.g6acbabd_amd64.deb

but the installer gave an error message: dependency is not satisfyable: libboost-python 1.49.0

As a Linux beginner I don't know yet how to proceed. Should I make buildmaster a ppa, download another version, or first find the mission python parts?

UPDATE: I installed the PREEMPT (not the sim) version on standard Linux Mint 19.2 No errors, works well for offline G-code testing
Thanks for help.