Re: Slic3r --gui won't run

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Monday 20 July 2020 13:48:12 Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:38:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > These 4 pkgs have now been downgraded to oldstable. And now a launch
> > of slic3r --gui yells about a missing Wx.pm.  Not Wx3.pm, but Wx.pm.
> >
> > What perl pkg, available for stretch, contains that module?
>
> You have two ways to find out.
>
> One is to install the apt-file package, and use it locally.
>
> The other way is to search for the filename in the repositories, using
> the https://packages.debian.org/ web site (or the judd bot in IRC).

apt-file was helpfull, thank you. It gave me the final clue.

By setting synaptic to prefer oldstable, and removing the stuff slic3r 
complained about, then re-installing the oldstable stuff, with about 3 
trips around the mulberry bush, I got it to run!!!  All w/o a reboot.

Now to find if its any better than Cura.

Thanks a bunch all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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