Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

phapete — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:22:23 -0400

I'm using 14.10 and found this worked for me ....

sudo apt-get install python python-tk python-pmw python-imaging python-serial python-wxgtk2.8 python-pyglet python-numpy cython python-libxml2 python-gobject python-dbus python-psutil git

git clone [github.com]

Make sure your printer is connected.

go to the directory created by git ... in my case /home/user/Printrun

sudo ./printrun

the port speed MUST be set to 250000

Hope it works for you :)

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:21:57 -0400

It's not that important.
Z-axis doesn't have to be fast anyway...

Time to start enjoy linux and 3d printing :)

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:14:23 -0400

depend on your printer, if you got screws on your Z axis, it would be slower...

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:05:16 -0400

Thnx swe3tdave

I got it working now.

One little issue I have.
My motors on X and Y move normal speed.
The motors on the Z-axis move only at half speed,
Weird isnt'it?

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:49:03 -0400

look if its hidden in a folder in /dev, i've seen that in a few old version i think...

unplug your 3d printer and plug it back and give me the result of:

dmesg

EDIT: you can use paste.ubuntu.com or attach a txt file, you can generate it with:

dmesg > dmesg.txt

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:31:02 -0400

I have located skeinforge in the /usr/share folder and pointed the path in pronterface/ external commands to this folder and it works ok now.
The interface is not that nice so I think I will try slic3r later as you have suggested.

Referring back to one of my previous posts I had allready installed pyserial.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-serial is already the newest version.
python-tk is already the newest version.
python-pyglet is already the newest version.
python-wxgtk2.8 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

When I put in the terminal:
$ls /dev/tty*
I get ports from tty to tty63 and from ttyS0 to ttyS59 but no ttyUSB or ttyACM

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:46:21 -0400

to connect to your 3D printer using 250000 baud rate, you need pyserial 2.7 or better. the package's name in ubuntu is python-serial or python3-serial

or you could try connecting at 115200...

as for the COM port, on my PC its /dev/ttyACM0

you can also try /dev/ttyUSB0

as for skeinforge location try: whereis skeinforge
it should give you the location /usr/bin/skeinforge

you can also try Slic3r instead of skeinforge: [slic3r.org]
there is a precompiled option if you dont want to use the source.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:22:59 -0400

I finally got Pronterface to open!
First I upgrade python from 2.7 to 3.2 but still didn't work.
Then I installed python-numpy and bang Pronterface opened.

Unfortunately the install is not over yet and I was hoping if somebody could help me to connect to my 3D printer.

1) I installed Skeinforge with sudo apt-get install skeinforge in terminal
Install happened without issues. However I do not know where it is installed.
Pronterface gives the following command: "python skeinforge/skeinforge_application/skeinforge.py" but can't find this file.
2) in Pronterface there are no COM ports to choose from. It just says 'none' (with my 3D printer connected)

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

kimented_ — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:29:11 -0400

Hello,
If you want to install pronterface using its repository, you must add the repository in the source.list file (or using the GUI), and you must run "apt-get update" before trying to install the package (if you do not an update, your system will not see the packages in the new repository).

But it seems that this repository contains packages for most recent Ubuntu, then when you will try to install pronterface, I think some dependancies will not be found.
I advise you to find a way to install a newer version of Ubuntu (or another distro). You can also upgrade your Ubuntu to the latest LTS version (14.04) using the update manager.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:01:36 -0400

If your CPU doesn't have PAE you will not have the
possibility to activate this in your BIOS. I have looked into all this
before I installed this version. My laptop is from 2006 btw.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Traumflug — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 05:13:29 -0400

Quote
Mendel90
I lost a few discs and decided to burn a new version wich told me right away about the PAE being non present.

PAE is something you have to switch on in your BIOS, IIRC.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

NormandC — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:59:46 -0400

This PPA only contains printrun packages for Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10 which is long obsolete) and Trusty (14.04). So it is normal that there would be no package found on Ubuntu 12.04.

[launchpad.net]

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:36:20 -0400

No problem.
Big thnx for helping me find a solution!

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:16:53 -0400

its possible the repository is just gone... :S

honestly, i dont know what to tell you anymore

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:40:15 -0400

When I look in synaptic manager the Pronterface package is not present (should be before python no?)
In the File menu I choose 'Add downloaded packages' and Pronterface is there but then It will not add itself to the list of packages...

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:21:32 -0400

First I tried the last version of Ubuntu wich failed to install without error message.
I lost a few discs and decided to burn a new version wich told me right away about the PAE being non present.
forcepae didn't do anything so I searched and found the non-pae version 12.04

I have done an setup.py uninstall (printrun folder remains. Only /usr/lib and /usr/share files are uninstalled)
All dependencies are installed.

I did the git clone command wich made a new Printrun folder in my /Home folder

Then I downloaded the repository (I found this exact same command on the skeinforge site...)
The update then was installed but the last command sudo apt-get install pronterface gave me an error:

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jim@Ilias:~$ sudo apt-get install pronterface
Reading package lists...
Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package pronterface

I did not do the upgrade.

Quote
sudo apt-get upgrade
since I want to stay on 12.04 non pae

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:12:39 -0400

oh and i just realized, there is a package of pronterface for your version of ubuntu... so try it first

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:richi-paraeasy/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pronterface

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:59:46 -0400

Your version of Ubuntu is a bit old, if you have 12.04 its 2 years and 6 months old... if its still not working, check the requirements: [github.com]

you can use synaptic to verify the installed version of a package. If you see something is lacking you're going to have to install that particular package from source...

Did you try installing 14.04 with forcepae? [help.ubuntu.com]

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:46:49 -0400

the installation is supposed to make you enable to start pronterface without going into the folder and running ./pronterface.py

this is what i get:

swe3tdave@server:~$ pronterface.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pronterface.py", line 32, in 
    from printrun.pronterface import PronterApp
ImportError: No module named printrun.pronterface

it does work when running from ~/github/Printrun/pronterface.py

as for the location, you can put the Printrun folder wherever you want, i have a few other github apps that i keep in a github folder but this is entirely up to you.

with that said, dont bother running install, something is probably wrong with the code there... and since the program could have been updated since last time you downloaded, get a new copy:
And Verify if you have all the dependencies again:

sudo apt-get install python-serial python-wxgtk2.8 python-pyglet python-tornado python-setuptools python-libxml2 python-gobject avahi-daemon libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 python-dbus python-psutil git
git clone https://github.com/kliment/Printrun.git

EDIT: Oh and before that, run

sudo apt-get update

and then

sudo apt-get upgrade

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:00:17 -0400

yes that's how I installed it.
I was thinking of re-installing it as it doesn't work.

Does the printrun folder has to be installed in a specific folder?
I installed the printrun folder in my /Home directory

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:26 -0400

not sure where your going with this but, if you installed with sudo python setup.py install

then you can uninstall with sudo python setup.py uninstall

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:25:51 -0400

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 (non PAE) because my CPU doesn't have PAE on it.
This has python 2.7 allready installed.

I got it from github.
I extracted the package to the printrun folder and installed it in terminal with 'setup.py'
Also I installed alot of other dependencies (pyserial, pyglet, wxPython e.a

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-serial is already the newest version.
python-tk is already the newest version.
python-pyglet is already the newest version.
python-wxgtk2.8 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Only after that I found commands online to install pronterface directly in the terminal.
Maybe if you could tell me howto uninstall the version I have installed now I could try it
with a command in the terminal found on github? github

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:34:57 -0400

what version of ubuntu are you using?

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:32:29 -0400

where did you download your copy of pronterface? what commands did you use?

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:39:41 -0400

I have installed Ubuntu on another partition on my old WinXP laptop.
Repetier host doesn't work good on XP and neither it will in Linux I suspect.(I have 1GB RAM)

I'm working on a fresh install off Ubuntu and almost immediately installed pronterface.
I downloaded and installed this program in the terminal and this should work.

@swe3tdave
I have visited the site on github and there the problems are printrun related.
I suspect my issue is with Linux and not with printrun.

My Win XP doesn't connect anymore with my 3D printer, due to an driver problem, so installing Ubuntu was my best alternative I could find.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:08:38 -0400

did you make a bug report on the github/issue link i gave you earlier? and even before that, make sure you are running the latest github version...

and yes, i agree with isonoob, you might have more luck with repetier host.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

isonoob — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:31:28 -0400

Just a question, why are you using linux if you don't have no experience with it?

You could also try running Repetier Host, it may work for you. You will have to run it's dependency and configure scripts first.

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:14:07 -0400

I wasn't exactly sure wich pronterface.py to use so I started off with the 1 in Printrun folder and then tried the Printrun/printrun wich also doesn't work.

When I try to execute the file in the Printrun folder this is what happens:

Quote

jim@Ilias:~/Printrun$ chmod 755 ./pronterface.py
jim@Ilias:~/Printrun$ ./pronterface.py
WARNING:root:Memory-efficient GCoder implementation unavailable: No module named gcoder_line [WARNING] Could not setup DBus for sleep inhibition: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./pronterface.py", line 32, in from printrun.pronterface import PronterApp
File "/home/jim/Printrun/printrun/pronterface.py", line 32, in from . import pronsole
File "/home/jim/Printrun/printrun/pronsole.py", line 42, in from .power import powerset_print_start, powerset_print_stop
File "/home/jim/Printrun/printrun/power/__init__.py", line 90, in orig_nice = p.get_nice()
AttributeError: 'Process' object has no attribute 'get_nice' jim@Ilias:~/Printrun$

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

swe3tdave — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:02:38 -0400

this is normal, do not run from ~/Printrun/printrun, run from ~/Printrun

i should've seen that earlier, i get the same error when running from Printrun/printrun, so...

Re: Need help setting up Pronterface in Ubuntu

Mendel90 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:05:17 -0400

I have tried all the above and I think the priveliges are no longer an issue.
Now I have a new error.

Quote

jim@Ilias:~/Printrun/printrun$ chmod 755 ./pronterface.py
jim@Ilias:~/Printrun/printrun$ ./pronterface.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./pronterface.py", line 32, in
from . import pronsole
ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package

I have searched this valueError online but it seems to be to complicated for a novice like me...