LinuxCNC Install using MX Linux 19.4 - Geared Toward New Users - Discussion

There is an issue with the keyser specified on the Buildbot page, try this one instead:

hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com

LinuxCNC seems to be using two keys, one for "base" and the other for buildbot.
Found out yesterday while giving Mint 20.2 another run with Master, it did not go well ...
The Python issue is becoming painful to sort out, and that brings another question for LinuxCNC masters: why does it require two pythons? Asks for python3.7 and after that is installed it keeps asking for just python .8 ?
Not the right place, i will kick myself out, thank you.
Will try MX today.

The problem is that Buildbot uses Debian10 which builds for python3.7 as does MX19.
I think Mint20 uses python 3.8 so Buildbot LinuxCNC won't work, you would need to do run in place or make you own packages for Mint20 and anything else that doesn't have python3.7
I have package builds available for python3.9 if you want to use Debian11 or MX21. I am not sure what python version Mint 21? uses.
 

Mint 20 came with Python 3.9, Mint 21 is not out yet nor have i seen any news about it (i was not looking for anyway).
Dang it, it was so easy ....

Yeah it was easy when it was python2.7 as that was the last 2 version so every distro had 2.7.
I could have sworn the Mint20 I built had python 3.8

snowgoer540 wrote:

It does. For deb and deb-src (which it looks like you may be missing, at least in the photo you provided) you need to edit the entry and change “stretch” to “buster”.

I decided to go with plan B and cloned the MXlinux drive and moved the config to it. Now its on the latest version

My next problem is the the bar at the bottom of the screen (task or panel) could do with auto hiding I haven't found the solution yet.