How To Install plater on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plater on Ubuntu.
What is plater
plater is:
Printrun is a full suite of host interfaces for 3D printers and CNC, consisting of:
- printcore, a standalone non-interactive G-Code sender
- pronsole, an interactive command-line host
- pronterface, a graphical host software with the same functionality as pronsole
Together with Slic3r they form a powerful 3d printing toolchain.
This package contains scripts and metadata for plater, a graphical tool to set-up STL files onto the printing plate.
There are three methods to install plater on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install plater Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plater using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plater
Install plater Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plater using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plater
Install plater Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install plater using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plater
How To Uninstall plater on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the plater package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plater
Uninstall plater And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plater and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plater
Remove plater Configurations and Data
To remove plater configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plater
Remove plater configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plater configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plater
Dependencies
plater have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plater package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.