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If you’re asking that question, don’t try it. App image is the official method for cura use in Linux. Just use that.    Keep in mind I’m a nerd who plays with systems for fun (and a paycheck). Cura is not a trivial code base. Make sure you understand how general code building tool chains work before tackling cura. Then be prepared to read, build, fail, troubleshoot, reread, build, fail, troubleshoot, repeat. Patience and asking questions the right way will get you there.    not sure it’s worth the effort though. 

I will try the other suggestions above later when I get back to my system.    Appimage as the only way I'm familiar with to get Cura...also my first time ever using Appimage. Is there a better way and does anyone have good luck compiling Cura from source? 

So... in the old school days, local was a generic fall back for non-standard installed stuff. /bin, /sbin for core OS, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin for system level "add ons" and "user space" stuff. We used /usr/local for third party and self rolled things. There would typically be all the standard directories in there (/etc, /bin, /sbin, etc). Then pure user space files lived in $HOME (because on nis/nix plus, home were often fun things like /users/j/jo/jodell which then mapped to /net/jodell and/or /home/jodell or, my favorite way to torture the not so innocent developer, /net/srv/$HOST/export/$USER/home/insecure/shared (where they had to know which host we happened to create use for their workgroup)(moral .. don't fork with your sysadmins by pretending you know how to directly access raw devices len... otherwise your home direcory gets hard to find and your pasward expires every 8 minutes).    Move that into modern *nix and you get a mishmash of file standards about how to properly store user space configs. The POSIX (and I think SYSV) methods would be that software should look in  $HOME/.<app>/<vers>/etc $HOME/.<app>/<vers>/local/etc $HOME/.<app>/<vers>/ $HOME/.<app>/etc $HOME/.<app>/local/etc $HOME/.<app> $HOME/etc/<app>/<vrs> $HOME/etc/<app> $HOME/local/etc/<app>/<vrs> $HOME/local/<app> $HOME/<app> /usr/local/<app>/etc/ /usr/local/etc/<app> /usr/local/<app> /etc/<app>/<vers> /etc/<app> I may have missed a directory or ordering in there, but there are standards that "should be" implemented. I'm not going to fuss over it, but linux development is notorious for "we do it our way" which is why I'm not a fan of app impage and prefer building from source when I can.    Or just using Mac. 

Thanks!  I'll look forward to trying this out!

Whether they're morons isn't really relevant. What matters is whether they're sheeple who just follow what other people are doing. Less intelligent people (not including you, since if you're smart enough to know you're not a genius, you're not stupid enough to think you are) can be capable of independent thought, which I would say is dangerous, but considering people have killed themselves doing "challenges" on TikTok, probably less dangerous than following the herd. Intelligent people can be sheeple just as easily though (i.e. Cult of iPhone) and that's the real shame since their independent thoughts might be worth something.