RTSX Linux - how to install

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Has anyone installed the RTSX app on a linux system?

When I try to extract the download package, I receive errors that it cannot transfer symbolic links on this operating system.
Is the linux version ready to be used?

Admittedly, not super familiar with linux.
I am running Mint 22.3 Cinnamon 64bit

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I can’t offer any personal experience with it but “search assistant” and I bet ChatGTP or other AI’s will be able to help you troubleshoot the issue.

Eric

RebornOS (arch based)

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Thanks, but I am hoping for some real world experience with this seemingly newer app.
I would like to hear from anyone who has used the Linux version of RTSX.

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What user are you using?

Hopefully not root, but you may need to ensure that the user has ‘sudoers’ privileges, when you extract the tar file rather the ‘tar -xvf myinstallfile.tar’ you’d use ‘sudo -xvf myinstallfile.tar’.

That’s just my best educated guess off the cuff. I did install it on a Raspberry Pi which runs Debian using a user that had sudoer privileges.

I don’t have time at the moment to spin up a Mint VM to test for you, but at least give that a shot. A quick search will give you instructions on how to give you user sudoer’s privileges on your particular flavor. (There’s a couple of different ways to do so, but I haven’t played with the ‘mint’ flavor of linux (Yes, Dad-Joke, VERY heavily implied).

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Are you using a VM or native Linux machine?

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I’m using Mint on a USB drive, so I can boot up in either win or linux.
So, sudo is not an option.
This is my goal, for now.
Any chance this can be run as a webapp in a flatpak brave installation? I am just looking into this.

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I have not tested this yet, as I do not have a new Redline controller yet, but the RTS1 interface is now working.
I needed to chmod +x RTS1 first before being able to run it.
Looks great BTW on an older 24” touchscreen, that ran poorly with a win installation.
For anyone else.. I have Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon running on a USB.
After chmod the RTS1 file, I was able to run it from commandline.

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While struggling to get RTSX 1.4.9 to connect to multiple Win 11 laptops a friend came over with his Linux laptop to troubleshoot the consistent COM failed errors on Win 11. He simply downloaded the Linux version of RTSC 1.4.9 and with some fiddeling with plugging and unplugging of the USB cable to get coms initialized the look and feel of the app on Linux was fine.

After that we moved to Win 11 and the magic trick to get consistent com’s working was 1) go to Device Manager and find the connection to the Redline controller and “Uninstall device” 2) at the top of device manager while the Redline controller was still connected click “Scan for new hardware”.

At this point I open RTSX and instead of the highly repeatable “COM 3 Failed” it now connects repeatedly. Hope this helps, Steve

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Thanks, it may come in handy when I eventually receive the controller.
At this stage, RTSX is working but there a couple of issues I will list below.
I was just looking for more of a presence of linux related threads on this forum and I am seeing very little.
If anyone knows of a thread or location where Q&A on linux installs and USB versions are better suited, that would be great.
Getting it going, especially when not used to linux, has been.. interesting. But seems worthwhile on my older toshiba touchscreen…so far.

I can move these to another thread.. or let them ride here.

  1. I have changed the directory for the gcode files in RTSX to a removable drive. However, when I access the File Manager in a webview from another terminal, it is not accessing the new directory. It seems to hold fast to the default folder.
  2. I do not have my controller yet, so I am going to assume that is the reason that all of my gcodes I have have loaded have Unsupported G command g49 errors. I have no errors like this when I run the files with my Original Series machine.
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