LinuxCNC on Debian 10 Buster quick and easy install

Thanks,

I could use Mint if that's better, it really does seem like an issue with Debian rather than LinuxCNC. I just want something that will update and take the 7i96 drivers. Have been very happy with my current system, I just want to be able to use this controller.

john

I just did a full install by copy/paste way of things and it worked perfectly, save for a minor issue, there were two L in one of the linuxcnc-uspace filenames left after editing the links.
Thank you guys for reporting this, i was not even aware that debian changed to 10.4 till someone mentioned it here.
Since i am not using debian for another year or two, i will leave this topic active till further notice.
Personally, if i check the box for "automatically login at boot" i want the damn thing to login, it does not, never ever, so it needs lightdm edited and yada yada yada debian....... and other stuff i mention randomly.
Those are the minor things that broke everything for me in debian, and that is for me incomprehensible as it has by far the biggest user and developer base, or it had at one point in time.
Moving on ... to Ubuntu 20.04, so more gray hair as it lacks EVERYTHING regarding Python2 and Glade2, so i had to resort to backports from "eoan", and it worked. Barely!

matthewsx wrote:
[john@LinuxCNCTEST:~$ sudo apt install gdebi .................
sudo: apt: command not found

That is something i have never seen on a Debian or Ubutu or Mint as i always use sudo apt and it always works, it did just now, and it did over 40 times today when installing other things on 4 computers.
Most probably not properly set sudo user and added to sudoers group, or you are running as root.

matthewsx wrote: Thanks,

I could use Mint if that's better, it really does seem like an issue with Debian rather than LinuxCNC. I just want something that will update and take the 7i96 drivers. Have been very happy with my current system, I just want to be able to use this controller.

john

Please do use Mint, it just works, and it works properly for years of everyday use.

Thanks, I haven't checked sudo config on this machine yet but if Mint is better I'll just start over with that.

Appreciate the help....

John

Updated original post :
-ready made script to do everything at once, only requires a singe press of Y
-list of commands to copy/paste in terminal, same as in the script for manually installing everything
-will install the latest Linuxcnc build of 2.9 version
-- it does not get much easier than this.