Thanks a lot for your reply. What I end up seeing on puTTY after typing sudo apt-get install [no matter what!]" is the following: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package xfce4 the last line, actually. And like I said in the original post, this happens still when I can ping to google. To the best of my knowledge if you can ping to google, you are connected, right?! And thus you must be able to download, but I am not. I'm coming to the conclusion that this primarily has something to do with BBB driver not appearing on my device manager, despite thatI have installed the drivers from BeagleBoard/getting-started.
On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:19:27 PM UTC+3, Mala Dies wrote: > > Oh and Sir, > > You might want to try, b/c the typing on the X client is showing incorrect > values, XFCE for your desktop client. I found that this works at times, > too. Here: https://www.xfce.org/. If I am not mistaken, you can just use > "sudo apt install xfce4." > > Seth > > P.S. I need to double check the apt install xfce4 cmd but I think that is > it. I will keep looking around for other info. I have been waiting to get > into this idea, the Machine Kit stuff, but I have been unable to find time. > I will reply soon. > > On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 1:16:50 AM UTC-5, Sardar Vayghannezgad > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I have been struggling for the past ten days, as a brand new user, to get >> my Beaglebone Black rec C (element 14) to run Machinekit on my Win 8.1 PC. >> To save you the long story, I am totally lost. What I've been able to learn >> during >> my time playing with all the software and hardware around me from >> forums, blogs, sites, personal intuition, etc comes down to: >> >> - successfully flashing an image on a microSD card and then transfer >> them on to the BB-Black, so that it can run without the flash card inside, >> - connecting BBB to my PC via puTTY and to the internet (albeit, >> apparently Google only, as I cannot have puTTy download any packages) >> >> Since I am desperately looking for some dummies pointers on the issues I >> have, I'm giving all the software/hardware coordinates I think are >> important: >> >> The image I'm using is from here >> <https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit> >> >> My Questions are: >> >> 1. BBB does show up on my PC with the default image >> <https://beagleboard.org/latest-images> it comes out with, and I can >> go through the instructions available on Beagleboard/getting started >> webpage <https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2>, but once I >> replace it with another Image >> >> <https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit>, >> >> it doesn't seem to appear as a drive on my PC nor anywhere on the Device >> Manager. However, I can putty it to my PC, and share my PC WiFi with it. >> Given that I have installed the required drivers from BBoard Getting >> Started <https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2>, Is this >> normal?!! If not, What is it that causes this? (I have searched high and >> low online, but haven't come up with a concrete conclusion) >> 2. I can use my PC WiFi to connect BBB to the Google per online >> instructions, yet any attempt, via puTTY, to download Machinekit >> Packages >> <http://www.machinekit.io/docs/getting-started/install-runtime-packages/> >> (Just >> in case, is the link right for my case?!!) from the related website leads >> in the error: >> >> machinekit@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install machinekit-xenomai >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> E: Unable to locate package machinekit-xenomai >> >> >> or >> machinekit@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install machinekit-posix >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> E: Unable to locate package machinekit-posix >> >> 3. I have downloaded the Machinekit Client on my PC. What >> else do I need? I can see online that I need download tightVNC viewer both >> on my PC and on the BBB via puTTY. right? Provided that I can do so, do I >> need to download a VCP (Visual Control Panel) like QtQuickVcp to use in >> conjunction with Machinekit? Should I install this on my PC or BBB or >> both?!!! >> >> 4. My keyboard is misspelling on ThightVNC window. How can I >> fix this? >> >> Any help, however small, would be appreciated. >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/be1476e5-d4f0-4278-9202-34e239eef219%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
