How To Install plater on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install plater on Debian 11. plater is Graphical tool to prepare 3D printing plates

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plater on Debian 11.

What is plater

plater is:

Printrun is a full suite of host interfaces for 3D printers and CNC, consisting of:

  • printcore, a standalone non-interactive G-Code sender
  • pronsole, an interactive command-line host
  • pronterface, a graphical host software with the same functionality as pronsole

Together with Slic3r they form a powerful 3d printing toolchain.

This package contains scripts and metadata for plater, a graphical tool to set-up STL files onto the printing plate.

There are three methods to install plater on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install plater Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install plater using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plater

Install plater Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plater using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plater

Install plater Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install plater using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plater

How To Uninstall plater on Debian 11

To uninstall only the plater package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plater

Uninstall plater And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plater and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plater

Remove plater Configurations and Data

To remove plater configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plater

Remove plater configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plater configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plater

Dependencies

plater have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plater package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.