LinuxCNC on Debian 10 Buster quick and easy install

Plasmaguy wrote: I tried again several times and it fails.

You have the wrong kernel installed,
I did several installations of this, it always works, always.
Can you please try one more time, and keep track of the steps so when you get stuck post that here.
Thank you.

How would the wrong kernel be installed when I follow your instructions exactly as they are set forth?
This is neither quick nor easy if it repeatedly gives corrupted files and others are also having problems getting your instructions here to work.

I tried on two different machines.

I really wanted this to be "quick and easy" but so far it hasn't been. By way of background I've worked with computers for over 30 years and done many support roles as well as recently writing Linux training materials for a major online training organization. I am more than happy to volunteer with improving the documentation for LinuxCNC since I'm a hobby machinist who's recently built a CNC mill from scratch and have worked with Linux since the 1990's.

This is what I get when following the directions in this post.

[john@LinuxCNCTEST:~$ sudo apt install gdebi linux-headers-4.19.0-8-common-rt linux-headers-4.19.0-8-rt linux-image-4.19.0-8-rt-amd64
sudo: apt: command not found
john@LinuxCNCTEST:~$ sudo apt-get install gdebi linux-headers-4.19.0-8-common-rt linux-headers-4.19.0-8-rt linux-image-4.19.0-8-rt-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gdebi is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gdebi' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.19.0-8-common-rt
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.19.0-8-common-rt'
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.19.0-8-rt
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.19.0-8-rt'
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-4.19.0-8-rt-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-image-4.19.0-8-rt-amd64'
john@LinuxCNCTEST:~$ ]

Thanks you for fixing the links, I was able to download the buildbot files but I still get stuck at the next step. As you can see I fixed the command but then the package isn't found. I have tried several work arounds already but if the goal is for this to be "quick and easy" for an average user I think people will still be frustrated.

BTW, I already have LinuxCNC running on my machine with a parallel port card but am now trying to upgrade to a Mesa 7i96 Ethernet controller card.

I want you to know I really do appreciate all the work you put in here and understand that the opensource world is made up largely of volunteers. Please feel free to contact me if I can be any help improving documentation, I am available and ready to chip in.

Thanks,

John

Did you do
sudo apt-get update ?

Yes

OK, leme give it another try and report back.
Be as it may, i might remove this topic alltogether, Debian still has some issues i really do not like and they keep dragging from release to release, hell that was the reason i moved to Mint after Ubuntu 11.04 made a mess of everything.