Ok, I tried to search, but everything I saw mentioned RepieterHost which I installed, but it seems Slic3r did not install with repieterhost as skienforge did with printrun/pronterface

I have used linux over the past few years, usually ubuntu, this is my first foray into Fedora since version 7! I have a copy of Fedora 18, I have installed Pronterface, but that came with skeinforge unfortunately.

I have downloaded the Slic3r 0.9.8 tar ball, but I'm afraid I have no clue how to actually install from a tar ball (have always used yum or apt-get).

Any help from a linux expert would be great!

If it is a tgz file - use gunzip
then tar xvf
this will extract the files into a directory - in this directory will be slic3r.pl
Then you will have a bundle of perl stuff to install - read this page - especially the info at the bottom of the page for Fedora
[github.com]

Then go to the slicer directory and type ./slic3r.pl - it should work, or it will complain that perl modules are not installed. The ones I found were these below, and run these commands to install them.

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Encode::Locale'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Math::ConvexHull::MonotoneChain'

If you find that slicer errors once run due to missing perl modules - go to [search.cpan.org] and look for the file, find out the module name, and just adjust one of the perl lines written above to install that module instead.

Thank you so much, I will try that and see how it goes. This has always been one of the most confusing things for me to figure out with Linux

You are using Fedora? I am fairly sure I just install repetierHost and slic3r using YUM:

[root@localhost proj]# yum list | grep RepetierHost
RepetierHost.noarch 0.84-1.fc18 @updates
[root@localhost proj]# yum list | grep slic3r
slic3r.noarch 0.9.9-5.fc18 @updates

I ran repetierhost and sliced an object and it looked like it worked. Unfortunately, the Fedora18 box is not next to the printrbot, the Ubuntu box is. And I'm still struggling with getting slic3r working on Ubuntu. So no need to go jumping through hoops, downloading tar packages and compiling thing on your own. Just use Yum.