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     <h3>Entries from October 2017.</h3>
     
+    <div class="entry">
+      <div class="title">
+        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Generating_3D_prints_in_Debian_using_Cura_and_Slic3r__prusa_.html">Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)</a>
+      </div>
+      <div class="date">
+         9th October 2017
+      </div>
+      <div class="body">
+        <p>At my nearby maker space,
+<a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">Sonen</a>, 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,
+<a href="https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura">Cura</a>, 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
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/706656">a request for adding into
+Debian</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org">the
+status page for the 3D printer team</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
+now to get slots in <a href="ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW
+queue</a> while we work up updating the packages to the latest
+upstream version.</p>
+
+<p>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 "slicers" and want something already available in
+Debian, check out
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r">slic3r</a> and
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa">slic3r-prusa</a>.
+The latter is a fork of the former.</p>
+
+      </div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title">
         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mangler_du_en_skrue__eller_har_du_en_skrue_l_s_.html">Mangler du en skrue, eller har du en skrue løs?</a>
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 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/09/">September (3)</a></li>
 
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/10/">October (1)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 
 </ul></li>
 
@@ -337,7 +392,7 @@ nabolaget for oss som liker å bygge litt selv. :)</p>
 <h2>Tags</h2>
 <ul>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (14)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
 
@@ -353,7 +408,7 @@ nabolaget for oss som liker å bygge litt selv. :)</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/chrpath">chrpath (2)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (153)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (154)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (158)</a></li>
 
@@ -367,7 +422,7 @@ nabolaget for oss som liker å bygge litt selv. :)</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (353)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (354)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (23)</a></li>