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Installation of linuxcnc 2.5.0 fails on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS from current cd.

Running from the Live CD works well. All CNC Applications are actually there and can be started. But if I install Ubuntu on the hard drive the application menu “CNC” doesn’t exist and the /usr/bin folder contains no linuxcnc scripts.
Installing from the same CD on another system works just fine. All files are there as expected. But this is my new hardware I bought because of latency troubles with the other system.
The main board is included in the list “hardware that works”:

main board: Asus P5G41-M
graphic card: VERTEX3D Radeon HD5450
hard drive: some Intel SSD

Can somebody help me with this issue?

Hi

Sorry I am confused.

Are you installing Ubuntu 10.04 and then trying to install LinuxCNC 2.5, or are you using the LinuxCNC LiveCD and installing Ubuntu 10.04 with LinuxCNC 2.4.7?

You need to install from the LiveCD first, then upgrade to 2.5 if you want to, as per the instructions on the homepage.

There should be no reason the LinuxCNC LiveCD would not install LinuxCNC on your new system ( unless "some Intel SSD" is very small and it ran out of room?)

regards

PS

From a terminal run

ls -l -R /usr/bin > /tmp/install.txt && ls -l -R /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai >> /tmp/install.txt && ls -l -R /lib/modules/ >> /tmp/install.txt && zip /tmp/install.zip /tmp/install.txt

and post the resultant /tmp/install.zip and I can compare it to a fresh install system and see what is missing

ArcEye wrote:
The current 10.04 LiveCD has LinuxCNC v2.5.0 so no need to do anything after installing it.

John

Oops, didn't notice the LiveCD change, afraid I haven't used one for ages, I compile from sources.

Still no reason it would fail to install LinuxCNC on one machine and not another, unless it aborted abnormally through lack of disk space or similar.

Post your zip and we will be able to see exactly what was installed

regards

I just updated the download page to show the version info for the 10.04 LiveCD.

Would Ubuntu even work if there is not enough disk space?

John

OT

In fact John it is not clear to me that the LiveCD has 2.5 on it

This is a paste of the Home Page entry and it doesn't say that, whereas 2.4.7 does mention the live CD
I still read it as 2.5 being a package upgrade from the 2.4.7 LiveCD install

LinuxCNC 2.5.0 Release
New major release (changelog).
See the instructions to update your system from EMC 2.4 to LinuxCNC 2.5.

LinuxCNC 2.4.7 Release
Fresh bugfix release (changelog).
See the download page to download the LiveCD.

Or you can download the source here.

It can't be my cache being out of date because I am accessing from a new install I put in
to check schuhmann's directory listings against

regards