Error getting packages on fresh install on Raspberry Pi 5

Joco wrote:

Okay - we found the problem and after some tests believe it is fixed. a stray full-stop ina file name pattern.

Thanks Joco!

Is there an updated file?  I clicked on the links provided and it said the files were in owner's trash.
The problem I've been running into with installing Python3-probe-basic is that I can't seem to get the repository to be recognized.  I tried adding the repo to synaptic and also tried adding to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxcnc.list.  But there are multiple repo urls and I'm not sure if I just didn't find a valid one.

need more information on your install. are you using the linuxcnc iso? if so i think it was sent out with an older repository listing, you may need to remove it first and try uninstalling qtpyvcp probe basic completely and then use the docs to reinstall with the key allowing it to install the source address.

I'm running the LinuxCNC OS provided on the LinuxCNC Downloads page:  Downloads

• LinuxCNC 2.9.2  Raspberry Pi 5 OS based on Debian Bookworm  Raspberry Pi 5 Uspace compatible with Mesa Ethernet boards. Note that SPI is not currently supported with the Pi5.

I used rpi-imager to burn the OS onto the micro SD card for my Raspberry Pi 5.  So far the OS is working fine.  I just can't get probe basic to install.

I just went through this a few days ago with my Pi 5.

I left a post on another thread about consider adding the RaspberryPi.com and Raspian.org entries to the appropriate lists so that the APT infrastructure works out of the box with the prebuilt Debian distributions from LinuxCNC.

I wasn't taking notes so I might have missed a step but you definitely need to add entries to the /etc/apt/sources.list and drop PGP signature files into /usr/share/keyrings.

I updated the files on my Pi but it will be tomorrow until I can get to it on the net. I'll try to upload those files and you can just drop them in. Then I would immediately install either gdebi or synaptic which are both great package managers.

I have Synaptic Package Manager installed. Looking forward to those files. Thanks for the help.

I'm attaching a .txt file with all the details - but I have a question for the group!I figured out how to 'kindof' get raspbian.org to work but it didn't seem like it had anything useful for a Pi 5 and/or for Debian.  Could be I just didn't find it or included the wrong tags.  I wound up adding arch=amdhf to get the errors to stop but doesn't that mean that a Debian Pi 5 doesn't need anything from there?Anyway, the file I will be attaching with have config instructions for BOTH raspberrypi.com and raspbian.org, including instructions on where/how to get the pgp security keys. 

I've never used this editor so if the file isn't attached I will try again.

Richard

WOW!

People were not kidding, that editor does suck.

I have a list of other 'tasks' that I wound up doing to get my Pi 5/Debian working more like I wanted it to:

1) Figuring out what Raspberry specific apps and config utilities were useful.

2) How to get them accessible from application menu.

If anyone is interested I can post what I have done but I'm new so my list is unlikely to be exhaustive.

I also wonder if that should be a new thread.

Remember the Linuxcnc RPi images are not meant to be the same as the Official RPi images. They are not to be used as a "daily driver OS", they are solely implemented to drive a cnc machine, and if you are inclined to do some Linuxcnc development.

menu-config will do most of the same stuff as the RPi utils except for setting up the various hardware related stuff. Enabling the various hardware overlays is done by config.txt, which is really really simple as it is very well documented within the file.

There really should be a "sticky" concerning the configuring of these images, without the need to add any RPi tools. And reminding users that the images are NOT related to other RPi OS's/images and such.