my-linux-installations

This README contains a summary of the steps I use to setup my 'bench' PC for my maker projects. I use a salvaged laptop without a screen as my 'bench' PC:

How to mirror monitors debian

When I boot into a new installation, the default monitor in the internal monitor that I have removed (LVDS-1). I use these commands to mirror that monitor onto my external monitor:

If using VGA : xrandr --output LVDS-1 --output VGA-1 --same-as LVDS-1

If using HDMI : xrandr --output LVDS-1 --output HDMI-1 --same-as LVDS-1

Source : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/325696/using-two-displays-on-debian

How to add launchpad PPAs

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/how-to-add-launchpad-ppas-in-debian-via.html https://askubuntu.com/questions/445487/what-debian-version-are-the-different-ubuntu-versions-based-on/445496#445496

Add your username to sudoers list

1. First method su

usermod -aG sudo <username>

1. Second method

In file /etc/sudoers add line <user> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL after line root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Arduino

1. download from https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
2. cd /opt
3. Untar : tar -xvf <>.tar.??
4. sudo ./install.sh

Serial Port permissions

https://askubuntu.com/questions/58119/changing-permissions-on-serial-port https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

Tennsy installation

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_download.html

USBASP

https://andreasrohner.at/posts/Electronics/How-to-fix-device-permissions-for-the-USBasp-programmer/ https://github.com/stefanbeller/USBasp/tree/master/bin/linux-nonroot

avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK (E:FD, H:DE, L:FF)

Arduino Board to directly burn sketches to a standalone atmega

https://github.com/technoblogy/atmegabreadboard

Add Rambo boards

1. Add the following link to the 'Additional Boards Manager URL' (under Arduino > Prefrences) : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ultimachine/ArduinoAddons/master/package_ultimachine_index.json
2. Tools > Boards > Board Manager, search and install 'Rambo'

Sigrok:

I bought a Saleae 16 clone, the followig links help to setup sigrok to use Sigrok to work with the clone https://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Building#Build_requirements

https://sigrok.org/wiki/WayEngineer_Saleae16

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Saleae_Logic16#Firmware

http://www.rudiswiki.de/wiki/sigrokLogic16

https://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=sigrok-util.git;a=tree;f=firmware/saleae-logic16

Repetier-Host:

1. Download Linux Appimage from https://www.repetier.com/download-now/
2. If you have old slic3r setting, copy them to ~/.Slic3r

Freecad:

1. To use latest builds : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable
2. sudo apt-get install freecad
3. In debian/ubuntu, the is installed in /usr/share/freecad

OpenSCAD

1. `cd /opt/'
2. sudo git clone git://github.com/openscad/openscad.git
3. cd openscad
4. sudo git submodule update --init
5. sudo ./scripts/uni-get-dependencies.sh
6. ./scripts/check-dependencies.sh
7. sudo qmake openscad.pro
8. sudo make
9. sudo make install

To remove the above and use the 2015 version:

1. sudo make uninstall
2. sudo apt-get install openscad

KiCad:

1. sudo apt install kicad
2. In debian/ubuntu, it is installed in /usr/share/kicad

KiCad/kicad-library#257 https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1512214.html

FlatCam:

1. cd /opt
2. git clone https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam
3. cd flatcam
4. sudo ./setup_ubuntu
5. run using : python flatcam
6. Edit flatcam.desktop and copy to /usr/share/applications to create desktop item

For desktop files

The following links help in creation of desktop icons/menu items /usr/share/applications https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/403836/error-invalid-desktop-entry-file-when-using-web-browser-in-lxde https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en

XRDP

1. sudo apt-get install xrdp
2. sudo apt install -y tigervnc-standalone-server

Geany : (almost IDE)

sudo apt-get install geany

Deja-dup/Duplicity

I use this to back up mu computer in GCP

sudo apt-get install deja-dup https://medium.com/google-cloud/how-to-make-ubuntu-backups-using-duplicity-and-google-cloud-storage-849edcc4196e

VSCode

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=linux64_deb

PLATFORM IO

python -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio/develop/scripts/get-platformio.py)"

PSPDEV

A lot of info is present here: https://github.com/pspdev/psptoolchain It is installed in /usr/local/pspdev

1. sudo apt-get install autoconf automake bison flex gcc g++ libusb-dev make libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev patch libreadline7 libreadline7-dbg libgmp3-dev subversion texinfo wget mpc libelf-dev libmpfr-dev libmpfr-doc libmpfr4 libmpfr4-dbg git libsdl1.2-dev
2. sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential autoconf automake cmake doxygen bison flex libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libreadline-dev libusb-dev texinfo libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libelf-dev libmpc-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libtool libtool-bin subversion git tcl unzip wget
3. sudo ./toolchain-sudo.sh

My particular installation gave this messge at the end make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/kaustubh/pspdev/psptoolchain/build/psplibraries/build/psp-ports/zziplib/mipsallegrexel-psp-elf' Installation finished. Failed installing: angelscript bzip2 libpng openal opentri pixman SDL_image /usr/local/pspdev/bin added to your systems login scripts!