Run Cura on linux

[simmosam 0]

I' ve run into the limits of memory usage with Cura and windows. there's also a thread about slicing complex models on windows, cura displays a message about a memory problem. I have a PC with 64 bit windows and 24GB of memory, so memeory enough. Still I can't slice big STL file. KISSlicer does slice my model but I can't get it to work with my ultimaker, whatever I do it keeps under extruding.

In the previous thread is written that Linux is much better with memry than windows. I wis to give it a try. I already installed Linux ubuntu but I don't know how to run Cura on it.

Can someone explain what i need to do to get Cura to run on Linux.

I tried Linux ubuntu 10

I download the source files from DAID + package.sh

in a terminal window i wrote: sh ./package.sh

but then I get a list of error messages: elif not expected, function: problem with checkTool.

I've read a buch of articles about compiling from source code to a working linux executable but I still don't understand it fully, can someone help me?

kind regards,

Sam

[Daid 298]

The package.sh script is to build a release. What you want to download is not the latest sources, but the latest release from

http://daid.github.com/Cura/

 

[simmosam 0]

Hi Daid,

what do I have to do when I downloaded the latest release?

gr

Sam

[beeone 0]

I'll borrow this thread a bit as I'm also having problems running Cura in linux. After installing the missing python stuff I can get Cura to run and open the model with it just fine. But when I hit "Prepare print" I immediately get the something went wrong during slicing error message, the log doesn't show anything either so I'm not sure what to try here. I installed/downloaded pypy 1.9 from the official website but that made no difference.

I'm running cura 12.10 in Opensuse.

I'd use windows for this but unfortunately I have a pretty large model that hits the 2gb limit.

[Daid 298]

Beeone, did you install pypy 64bit? Usually this error happens on Linux when you have a 32bit pypy on a 64bit only system.

As for "what to do", the short list to get Cura working on Ubuntu is:

- Download the latest release

- Install the packages: python-numpy, python-pyopengl, python-serial, python-wxpython (these package names could differ)

- Run the cura.sh script to start Cura.

Linux installation support for Cura isn't the best right now, as it's a low priority target with lots of differences between systems.

[beeone 0]

I had the 64bit version installed yes. I was able to get it working now though, the problem was that I had renamed the extracted pypy dir to match the original dir in the cura folder. For some reason that was not good but now it works.

[isphording90 0]

I had a similar problem: I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and downloaded the .deb from the ultimaker download section and installed all the dependencies. When i opened Cura and pressed the prepare button, the word "starting" came in the bottom left corner but nothing happend. I tried many things to get it to work. The I removed cura and went here: https://github.com/daid/Cura and build and installed the Cura development version with these commands:

 

git clone https://github.com/daid/Cura.git

sudo apt-get install python-opengl

sudo apt-get install python-numpy

sudo apt-get install python-serial

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

cd Cura

sudo ./package.sh debian

sudo dpkg -i ./scripts/linux/Cura*.deb

Worked like a charm!

I don't know what's wrong with the first .deb file but maybe this helps people who have the same problem.

Thanks Daid for the very godd and easy to understand documentation on github!

 

[isphording90 0]

I had to make a completely new installation of linux because of some issues. Now when I do everything like bevore to run cura, it hangs at the splash screen and cura won't open. When I start cura through the terminal I get this output:

lukas@workstation:~$ cura

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 14665, in <lambda>

lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )

File "/usr/share/cura/Cura/gui/splashScreen.py", line 16, in DoCallback

self.callback()

File "/usr/share/cura/Cura/gui/app.py", line 39, in afterSplashCallback

from Cura.gui import mainWindow

File "/usr/share/cura/Cura/gui/mainWindow.py", line 9, in <module>

from Cura.gui import preview3d

File "/usr/share/cura/Cura/gui/preview3d.py", line 15, in <module>

from OpenGL.GLU import *

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/GLU/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>

from OpenGL.raw.GLU import *

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/raw/GLU/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>

from OpenGL.raw.GLU.constants import *

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/raw/GLU/constants.py", line 7, in <module>

from OpenGL import platform, arrays

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/arrays/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>

formathandler.FormatHandler.loadAll()

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/arrays/formathandler.py", line 37, in loadAll

cls.loadPlugin( entrypoint )

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/arrays/formathandler.py", line 57, in loadPlugin

handler = plugin_class()

File "numpy_formathandler.pyx", line 30, in OpenGL_accelerate.numpy_formathandler.NumpyHandler.__init__ (src/numpy_formathandler.c:1195)

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_configflags'

 

What have I done wrong this time? And what can I do to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Daid 298]

It's something that the Ubuntu maintainers broke in the numpy or PyOpenGL packages.

 

[isphording90 0]

Ah OK.

I went here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pyopengl

and downloaded the .deb of version 3.0.0-0ubuntu1 for the Lucid Lynx

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/python-opengl_3.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb

Now everything works again! Maybe this is helpful for users with the same problem.

Thanks Daid for the info! =)

 

[leechengm 0]

The package.sh script is to build a release. What you want to download is not the latest sources, but the latest release from http://daid.github.com/Cura/

 

Hi ,Daid:

I install Cura on Debian 7.0.0 (GNU/Linux) ,I can't run it as ordinary user, but it can run as root ,but it can't load model file.

AND get :Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/cura/Cura/util/sliceEngine.py", line 161, in runSlicer

self._process = self._runSliceProcess(commandList)

File "/usr/share/cura/Cura/util/sliceEngine.py", line 294, in _runSliceProcess

return subprocess.Popen(cmdList, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__

errread, errwrite)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child

raise child_exception

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Closing down

 

[1]+ Done cura

 

[Daid 298]

How did you install it? Used the deb package or the sources from github?