Installing LinuxCNC 2.9 or Master on Linux Mint 21

cmorley wrote:

I tried to make a deb on a lower python version but something failed with translations.

Try it with --no-docs
Usually that works and takes much less time to compile.

I can see no obvious way to adjust the debian deb build process. I changed the generated compiling command directly and it failed in some other translation way.

./configure in the debian folder takes arguments. try ./configure help (or --help) There is a nodocs setting somewhere. Just not sure of the syntax

great thanks - I'll try that.

Is there some obvious solution I'm missing? Am I swimming against the current for no reason? Would running Debian version ?? make my linuxcnc life better and prevent me from being assaulted by python versions in future? Should we all just go back to building from source? Some other solution?

I just slowly moved to a new PC and OS because of a quite outdated python situation and I was just about to mount it into the control cabinet and moving from pre0 to pre1 has hit the python road-bump again.
 

Yeah, Debian is the way now as it is officially in their repos, not sure when Bookworm comes out but it can be downloaded and used.
RodW has a good tutorial for it, i think, been spaced out lately so not "Mr Current affairs" right now.