Ubuntu 10.04 / Linuxcnc / heekscad & heekscnc -installation (steps of what I did)

[diy-john]

Just for record, steps of how I installed. These are instructions for newbie -machinists, such as me :D
- it was not plain sailing for me, in particular with Heekscnc and Heekscad.
- There are probably other ways of doing it, but these worked for me, with Linuxcnc Ubuntu, 10.04.

- Initially I tried using steps from here
UbuntuInstallation - heekscad - How to build and install HeeksCAD and related projects for Ubuntu - Free CAD based on Open CASCADE - Google Project Hosting
...however got all sorts of errors, in a number of places, for example,
# ----------------------- begin list of errors ---------------------------
E: Package git has no installation candidate
make: *** No rule to make target `package'. Stop.
Could not find module FindOCE.cmake or a configuration file for package
OCE.

Adjust CMAKE_MODULE_PATH to find FindOCE.cmake or set OCE_DIR to the
directory containing a CMake configuration file for OCE. The file will
have one of the following names:

OCEConfig.cmake
oce-config.cmake
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND
FTGL_INCLUDE_DIR
Package python-wxgtk2.8 is not installed
heekscad: error while loading shared libraries: libTKVRML.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ----------------------- begin list of end ---------------------------

However, here are steps that one did today 2013-01-06, got them working nice:

1. Install a clean Ubuntu 10.04. "LinuxCNC" -version
- had done this step before here:
http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/mill-b...html#post29153

2. Install Heekscad and Heekscnc - with their pre-requisities
- so we have an un-touched Ubuntu 10.04 -installation before these steps.
- all commands below are executed on command -prompt as linux "root" -user


apt-get install emacs # install my favourite editor
# install some pre-requisities:
apt-get install git-core subversion libwxbase2.8-dev cmake build-essential libopencascade-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtkglext1-dev python-dev cmake libboost-python-dev

# Install some more pre-requisities:
apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxversion

# Retrieve source -files
mkdir /mycnc
cd /mycnc
git clone --recursive git://github.com/Heeks/heekscad.git
cd /mycnc/heekscad
git clone --recursive git://github.com/Heeks/heekscnc.git
git clone --recursive git://github.com/Heeks/libarea.git
git clone --recursive git://github.com/Heeks/libactp.git
git clone --recursive https://github.com/sliptonic/opencamlib.git
git clone --recursive git://github.com/tpaviot/oce.git

# Continue still in directory
# /mycnc/heekscad
sudo apt-get -y install libftgl-dev
ldconfig

# OCE -installation:
cd /mycnc/heekscad/oce/
# Read instructions if you feel like it
# more INSTALL.Unix
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
# Give one (1) only of two commands below
make
# Or, alternatively
# make -j2
# to enable multiprocessed compilation and speedup the whole compilation
# process.

make install/strip

# That is OCE -installation done.

# HeeksCNC uses a number of libraries to perform various operations. Install all of them or
# only the ones you plan to use.
# Install libarea
#
# area.so is required for pocket operations.
cd /mycnc/heekscad/libarea/
make clean # OPTIONAL: only needed if you have previous make -attempts, otherwise, not needed
make
make install

# Install libactp
# actp.so is required for adaptive roughing operations.
# This may be removed from git soon thus you may want to skip it
cd /mycnc/heekscad/libactp/PythonLib
make clean # OPTIONAL: only needed if you have previous make -attempts, otherwise, not needed
make
make install


# Install opencamlib
# opencamlib is the replacement for pycam. It's required for zigzag operations.
cd /mycnc/heekscad/opencamlib/src
make clean # OPTIONAL: only needed if you have previous make -attempts, otherwise, not needed
cmake .
make
make install


# Install heekscnc:
cd /mycnc/heekscad/heekscnc/
cmake .
make package
sudo dpkg -i heekscnc_*.deb # only one .deb to install, but the filename may change


# Install heekscad:
cd /mycnc/heekscad
cmake .
make package
sudo dpkg -i heekscad*.deb #only one .deb to install, but the filename may change

# Give command:
ldconfig

# Let's start our newly installed heekscad / heekscnc:
heekscad


DONE.


By default, it seems G0 -button (Postprocess) is missing (due to a bug) from Heekscad.

# To find that missing G0 -button, change from options ---> tool icon size to smaller (eg. 16) and then larger again


# ...and the button appears on top right hand corner of toolbar:



Thanks for reading and have fun