Tried the work arounds I found on Google, but cannot find Printrun or Pronterface in my /usr/share folder
Cannot load the program
There must be someone out there running a 3d printer in Linux
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You can run it from source since it is just a python script I think. You can releases from the GitHub page (tar.gz source files). (This is link is from their website)
Dependencies may be needed (packages usually install these automatically). My guess from here is:
sudo apt-get install python-serial python-wxgtk3.0 python-pyglet python-tk
You will probably encounter a permissions issue unless you run a command similar to installing the Arduino client - you may need to logout and login after this:
sudo adduser $USER dialout
Other distribution such as Fedora have (possibly now defunct) packages for udev rules as an alternative. You can copy the included file to /lib/udev to try, but an interesting note from these:
Normally, when you connect a RepRap like 3D printer to a Linux machine by an USB cable, you need to be in dialout or similar group to be able to control it via OctoPrint, Printrun, Cura or any other control software. Not any more.
Install this rule to grant all users read and write access to collected devices based on the VID and PID.
Disclaimer: Such device might not be a 3D printer, it my be an Arduino, it might be a modem and it might even be a blender. But normally you would add your user to dialout and get access to all of those and more anyway. So I guess be careful when some of the users should not get access to your blenders.
Wilf
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