Ubuntu: Installation

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)

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 update

Install HeeksCNC:

sudo apt 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. More details available README-Unix.md file in sources root directory.