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Ubuntu: Installation

Romuald Conty edited this page Jun 14, 2020 · 4 revisions

Introduction

There are 3 ways to use HeeksCNC suite:

  • The easiest is to use PPA to install directly Ubuntu packages
  • If you want to build it locally, it recommended to use Debian packaging way
  • Or you can build it using CMake, the regular way

Use PPA (Personal Package Archives)

Stable version

Add CAM PPA to your repositories list:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neomilium/cam

Update your packages list:

sudo apt-get update

Install HeeksCNC:

sudo apt-get install heekscnc

Development version

HeeksCNC and related tools (HeeksCAD, libarea, OpenCAMLib) are daily packaged in heekscnc-devel PPA.

Note: this PPA provides development versions of HeeksCNC, HeeksCAD, libarea and OpenCAMLib.

Add heekscnc-devel PPA to your repositories list:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neomilium/heekscnc-devel

Update your packages list:

sudo apt-get update

Install HeeksCNC:

sudo apt-get install heekscnc
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