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I am an old Windows guy trying to become a Linux guy. Im moving all the design and prep software for my 3d printers from windows to Ubuntu. I am really struggling trying to figure out how to get Slic3r to run. I downloaded the tar from github for the 32 bit ubuntu, extracted it into a folder at ~/Programs/Slic3r. This created several directories, including the bin directory holding the executable. But for me, it will not execute. I suspect I have left out one or more steps but am to Ubuntu challenged to know what they are. I've tried to find things on the web that would instruct me, but they all seem to confuse me more than anything.

Two questions... Is there a simple straightforward set of instructions for installing and running Slic3r?

Is here a particular log that I should be looking at that might tell me what (does not) happen when I right click on the Slic3r executable and select run. Nothing happens as far as I can see.

As always, any help would be appreciated.

Charlie RC
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I don't know why, but a fresh day brought a fresh try at following the instructions on Slic3r.org, and this time I must have done it right. Slic3r installed fine this morning. I don't have a clue what I was doing wrong that I finally did right.

Charlie RC
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i had a problem when i installed slic3r earlier but after hours of searching for a solution i thought it was over. Then i tried to installed one more time and i got the same problem as i had before. i was stuck when i used this command CPANM=~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/cpanm perl Build.PL. it was just alot of red text showing. but on top of all that red text i saw the solution. cpanm --local-lib=~/perl5 local::lib && eval $(perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5/ -Mlocal::lib) and after i typed that in the terminal it worked! (you have to type sudo first tho. )

Erik Larsson
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