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3D printer / slicing GUI built on top of the Uranium framework
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Running the AppImage aarch64 on a Chromebook #147

Open castaway opened 2 years ago

castaway commented 2 years ago

Application version ./Downloads/Cura-mb-master-aarch64-20211119.AppImage

Platform Acer Spin 513 Chromebook (8Gb RAM) - Linux penguin 5.4.151-16908-gff376e5d5ee1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 11 19:42:45 PST 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Printer n/a

Reproduction steps

  1. Download aarch64 AppImage build
  2. chmod +x it
  3. Install zlibg1q (libz)
  4. Attempt to run AppImage

Screenshot(s) image

Actual results Get a tiny window with an empty text area with an "ok" button, that just closes it

Expected results Cura to start up

Log file None existing

Additional information This is a chromebook, not a Pi, so this may be all wishful thinking.. There's no libgles-dev available, so it could be that? Any ideas?

smartavionics commented 2 years ago

Hi.

Although the x86_64 appimage will run on a chromebook that uses an Intel processor, I don't think the aarch64 appimage will work on a chromebook because it is expecting the OpenGL to be GLES based on Broadcom GPU.

Have you tried using the mesa build I provide? That may provide some missing libraries you need?

castaway commented 2 years ago

ooh, I'm a nitwit, I do have a "libgles2" however, now it starts!

smartavionics commented 2 years ago

So is the UI usable? Can you slice and preview the results?

castaway commented 2 years ago

Slice + save yes, preview says "you havent sliced yet" (!?) ..

smartavionics commented 2 years ago

That's weird, what does it show in the popup you get when you hover the cursor over the (i) above the save to disk button?