Using Flatcam Beta on modern Linux with Conda

[Lukasz Olszewski]

Hi,

I recently wanted to get flatcam working on my up to date arch Linux and browsing Bitbucket issues I found other people found various ways to get it working on other distros, but no arch. So I decided to use conda for the purpose.

After some experimentation I’ve got it working and I have to say it feels like it runs an order of magnitude faster than on windows. I definitely recommend it to others if they already know how to use conda. I’m attaching my conda environment file which can be used to replicate the environment like this:

conda env create --name flatcam-env --file=flatcam-conda.yml

(where flatcam-env is the name I chose for my environment, it can be anything)

Then you have to do

conda activate flatcam-env

and finally you run FlatCAM.py as usual ( python FlatCam.py )