On 3/2/25 16:34, John Hasler wrote:
gene writes:
I've done that. Where did you get the debian flatpak? Tn
Debian flatpak *package*. Type
apt-cache show flatpak
Flatpak is the tool that you use to install flatpaks. The flatpaks
themselves do not come from the Debian archive. To install flatpak type
sudo apt install flatpak
and then read the man page. After that follow the instructions on the
Prusa site. Use sudo and do a "system" install, not a "personal"
one so that the flatpaks go in /var/lib/flatpak and not somewhere under
your home directory.
I assume that there is some reason why the version of PrusaSlicer that
is in the Debian archive is so unsuitable that you are willing to
tolerate the shambling horror that is the flatpak system.
I have now done that, did a sudo updatedb and found it installed in
/var/lib/flatpak with all names at least 80 chars long and hashed so
that there is no way in hell one could remember them, or which one of
about 30 files was the actual executable.
With AppImages you made it executable, and made a shorthand link to it
and off to the races, after the initial 30 second system freeze of
course. And it was a machine manager in addition to its slicer duties.
The AppImge contains enough webkit that you can't tell from the gui if
watching the machine, any great diff between that annd just watching it
with a browser like ff or chromium, with chromium being obviously 2 or 3
times faster than webkit or FF. But you must give chromium the full ipv4
address of the machine.
An ls -lR of /var/lin/flatpack | wc -l shows:
gene@coyote:~$ ls -R /var/lib/flatpak|wc -l
44889
Nearly 45000 files for one app????
I'll manually delete that fuster cluck until prusa realizes that is
not at all workable. AppImages work, this does not. Thanks John, now I
am convinced joseph P. has screwed up. .
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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