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Ubuntu: Installation

Romuald Conty edited this page Dec 16, 2017 · 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.

Supported versions: Precise (12.04 LTS), Trusty (14.04 LTS), Xenial (16.04), Zesty (17.04), Artful (17.10), Bionic (18.04).

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

Build it the Debian way

This method allow you to build all Debian packages related to HeeksCNC.

Instructions are available on a dedicated wiki page

Build it the standard way

This method allow you to build HeeksCNC and its dependencies using CMake.

Instructions are available on a dedicated wiki page and in README.Unix file in sources root directory.

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