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== Installing Mono ==
MatterControl requires Mono version 3.10 or above. If you are on an older version of Ubuntu (before Xenial 16.04 LTS) or Fedora that does not have the latest Mono then you can add the official Xamarin repository to get up to date. The official MatterControl download currently comes with a shell script to do this automatically on Debian based distros.
$ sudo apt-get install curl
== Using Other Slice Engines ==
MatterControl's built in slice engine is MatterSlice, which is a port of CuraEngine to C#. You can also choose other slicing engines. The official release comes with Slic3r, but when building from source or using unofficial packages you will have to install the other engines seperately separately and make symlinks in the MatterControl directory. For example on Arch, make a symlink in <code>/usr/lib/mattercontrol/Slic3r/bin</code> to the Slic3r executable.
# mkdir /usr/lib/mattercontrolMatterControl/Slic3r # mkdir /usr/lib/mattercontrolMatterControl/Slic3r/bin # ln -s /usr/bin/slic3r /usr/lib/mattercontrolMatterControl/Slic3r/bin/slic3r
To use CuraEngine, do
# ln -s /usr/share/cura/CuraEngine /usr/lib/mattercontrolMatterControl/CuraEngine.exe
Yes, it expects the `.exe` extension even on Linux.