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@davidk davidk released this 01 Jul 02:14
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version_2.8.0
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This release tracks PrusaSlicer's upstream version_2.8.0. AppImages are built using appimage-builder (with PrusaSlicer's dependencies) for broader compatibility at the cost of an increased AppImage size.

Please note that this AppImage has some issues on different ARM systems (see the Issues section). There are no offerings for 32-bit systems, as PrusaSlicer depends on more recent versions of libraries not available with the current images used for building.

Similar to PrusaSlicer's current AppImage offering, there are two AppImages, one for systems locked to an older version of libwebkit2gtk, and another for more recent versions.

Issues
  • Cannot launch due to OpenGL errors, etc: This is partially patched, AppImages are built with -DSLIC3R_OPENGL_ES=1.
  • After slicing, layer view results in a black screen: No fix, usually happens with larger models. Gcode export still works.
Install dependencies

New: It might be necessary to install libwebkit2gtk, as it cannot currently be provided with the AppImage:

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 - Web content engine library for GTK
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 - Web content engine library for GTK
$ sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

Bookworm also needs the libfuse2 package:

sudo apt-get install -y libfuse2

For other Raspberry Pi OS distributions, more dependencies on the host may be needed. Run the following in a terminal to install them:

sudo apt-get install -y git cmake libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
libboost-thread-dev libboost-log-dev libboost-locale-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev build-essential \
pkg-config libtbb-dev zlib1g-dev libcereal-dev libeigen3-dev libnlopt-cxx-dev \
libudev-dev libopenvdb-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libnlopt-dev \
libdbus-1-dev imagemagick libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev fuse libfuse2

After downloading the AppImage and installing dependencies, make the AppImage executable and run the AppImage to launch PrusaSlicer:

64-bit:

$ chmod +x PrusaSlicer-version_2.8.0-aarch64.AppImage
$ ./PrusaSlicer-version_2.8.0-aarch64.AppImage

On more recent OS versions + 64 bit (you will see libwebkit2gtk issues launching with the above AppImage):

$ chmod +x PrusaSlicer-version_2.8.0-aarch64-latestOS.AppImage
$ ./PrusaSlicer-version_2.8.0-aarch64-latestOS.AppImage
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