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+               <title>Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Generating_3D_prints_in_Debian_using_Cura_and_Slic3r__prusa_.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;At my nearby maker space,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Sonen&lt;/a&gt;, I heard the story that it
+was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+)
+on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had
+to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages
+worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X.  I found this annoying,
+as the software involved,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura&quot;&gt;Cura&lt;/a&gt;, is free software
+and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took
+the time to package it for the relevant distributions.  I even found
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/706656&quot;&gt;a request for adding into
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but
+never resulted in the software showing up in Debian.  So a few days
+ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a
+working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW
+queue for the ftpmasters to have a look.  You can track the progress
+on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
+status page for the 3D printer team&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
+now to get slots in &lt;a href=&quot;ftp-master.debian.org/new.html&quot;&gt;the NEW
+queue&lt;/a&gt; while we work up updating the packages to the latest
+upstream version.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder
+to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the
+short time I spent on it, are already in Debian.  If you are looking
+for 3D printer &quot;slicers&quot; and want something already available in
+Debian, check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r&quot;&gt;slic3r&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa&quot;&gt;slic3r-prusa&lt;/a&gt;.
+The latter is a fork of the former.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Mangler du en skrue, eller har du en skrue løs?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mangler_du_en_skrue__eller_har_du_en_skrue_l_s_.html</link>