Machinekit

Machinekit

Setting up machinekit on a platform

This document is intended to get Machinekit installed on the platform of your choice. Because of the multi-platform nature of the machinekit project there can be some differences in the installation for a specific platform.

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You should first have a working Debian installation.

This post details how to set up Debian Stretch i386 on a PC, add a rt-preempt kernel and machinekit packages.

As a general example of a package install, you may find it useful.

Installation options:

Installing packages

Development packages

In addition to the configuring of the APT repository, installation of the kernel, there are some additional steps to take to install a development setup.

Set up a development platform when you want to develop for Machinekit.