From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 08:48:00 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: New post on Cura.
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New post on Cura.
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+Title: Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)
+Tags: english, 3d-printer, debian
+Date: 2017-10-09 10:50
+
+<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>.</p>