PKGBUILD files to run Makerbot Desktop in Archlinux (for version 3.9.1 anyway)

README.MD

Makerware AUR files

What works

This is only what I could verify with my Replicator Mini; it may or may not work on your device

• Connecting over USB and wifi (mostly; wifi connetion is lost while printing)
• Updating firmware
• Loading files and basic sizing/positioning
• Printing

What doesn't work

• Settings menu won't open; so default settings are all you get
• conveyor.service sometimes fails to start if makerware is running (and may have to be reinstalled to make work again.)

How to install

Download PKGBUILD_BOOST to a folder, and rename it PKGBUILD. Run 'makepkg -sri' in that folder to install it. Next, download PKGBUILD and makerbot-desktop.install. Run 'makepkg -sri' in that folder to install it. Run 'sudo systemctl enable --start conveyor' to enable communication with the printer. Run 'makerware' to run the program itself.

Other issues

It'd be nice if there was a way to not have to install outdated boost libraries in /usr/lib, but at least only the versioned libraries are installed so you can't accidentaly call them.

Makerware is linked against a very old copy of jsoncpp, and for now this old version is located in /usr/bin. This will conflict with any other software you have that uses jsoncpp that expect a newer version. It'd be nice to clean that up some day.

Why don't you put this on the AUR?

Because the settings menu doesn't work, and that's a major issue. If you want to get that working and post it, be my guest! But for now, it's printing, which is just enough to keep my kids entertained.

makerbot-desktop.install

post_remove() {
	update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
	update-desktop-database -q
	gtk-update-icon-cache
	[[ -z $2 ]] && echo -e "Stopping conveyor.service"
	[[ -z $2 ]] && echo -e "Disabling conveyor.service"
        systemctl stop conveyor 2>/dev/null
	systemctl disable conveyor 2>/dev/null
        [[ -z $2 ]] && echo -e "Removing user 'conveyor'"
	userdel -r conveyor >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
	[[ -z "$2" ]] && echo -e "Restoring /run/lock's permissions"
	chmod g-w /run/lock
	true
}

post_install() {
	## Reuse post_remove code
	post_remove "null" "null"
	
	## Create conveyor user
	echo -e "\nAdding user: conveyor"
	if ! getent passwd conveyor >/dev/null; then
		useradd --system \
			-M -d /dev/null \
			--shell /bin/false conveyor
		gpasswd -a conveyor lp
		gpasswd -a conveyor uucp
	fi
	# Create and set permissions for /var/run/conveyor
	mkdir -p -m 3777 /var/run/conveyor
	chmod g+s /var/run/conveyor
	#chgrp conveyor /var/run/conveyor
        chown -R conveyor:conveyor /var/run/conveyor
	# Set proper permissions for any existing lock files
	#chgrp conveyor /var/run/conveyor/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
	#chown conveyor /var/run/conveyor/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
	chmod 0644 /var/run/conveyor/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true

	# Create and set permissions for /var/log/conveyor
	mkdir -p -m 3777 /var/log/conveyor
	chmod g+w /var/log/conveyor
	#chgrp conveyor /var/log/conveyor
	# Set proper permissions for any existing log files
	#chgrp conveyor /var/log/conveyor/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
	#chown conveyor /var/log/conveyor/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
        chown -R conveyor:conveyor /var/log/conveyor
	chmod 0664 /var/log/conveyor/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
	
	echo -e "Changing /run/lock's permissions. Setting g+w"
	chmod g+w /run/lock
	
	# gpasswd -a conveyor root

	#chown conveyor /var/log/conveyor/conveyord.log
	
	## Enable and start conveyor service
	echo -e "Enable and start conveyor.service to be able to connect to printer\n #systemctl enable conveyor.service && systemctl start conveyor.service"
        
}

post_upgrade() {
		#touch /var/log/conveyor/conveyord.log
        #chown conveyor /var/log/conveyor/conveyord.log
        echo -e "Please restart conveyor.service with\n #~ systemctl restart conveyor.service"
}

PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: Francisco Martinez <zomernifalt at gmail dot com>
pkgname=makerbot-desktop
pkgver=3.9.1
_openmeshver=3.2_3.2
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="A complete, free 3D printing solution for discovering, managing, and sharing your 3D 
prints."
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://www.makerbot.com/desktop"
license=('GPL')
depends=('boost-for-makerbot' 'glibc>=2.4' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'dbus>=1.0.2' 'libgl' 'qt5-base>=5.3.0' 'qt5-webkit>=5.0.2' 'zenity' 'zlib>=1.1.4' 'python>=3.4' 'python-jsonschema')
conflicts=('jsoncpp')
options=('!strip')
install="$pkgname.install"
_fakeubunturelease=16.04
_baseurl="http://downloads.makerbot.com/makerware/ubuntu/pool/main"

    _arch="amd64"
    md5sums=(
        '6aec60dd4a7a3a20857d575e841002ff'
        '9a39a730e4c5d31f87f5710ddbc0e644'
        '59ea097b7deec6d352a057df4baf894d'
        'b4fd76e23628fcbc301e27d969600ce9'
        '7a56fc6629bccb944873ad2fc191286e'
        '2f202ee0f369b8967aa0f7b749058b63'
        '7fd2512a4dd14641f3613810da79981b'
        'c992b06dd6f7cb648ba437ee4740385e'
        '79c46c1e65ce4bc5e61ecc7913409c0b'
        '419ba461b954743cbadc79bac1245113'
        '74175f5415e6be6fb26725fb1d02c07c'
        'fb5ed20c75174e7de3b620ce86f746bc'
        '214aba4e8e0a36e1dbfceab48d1ee735'
        'be31f512661788e893d17a7e5b983e16'
        'e3c45d0ceda92580576f774540982837'
        '30cfca0bae8324016a51b781e01afba4'
        '7b4f4562ce814dcfa51b319c075c16fd'
        '03ef90d770466e51857010e477d66419')

source=(
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/makerware_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/conveyor_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/conveyor-common_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/conveyor-ui_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/libmbqtutils_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/libthing_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/libtinything_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/libtoolpathviz_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/mb-fopenhack_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/mb-libjsonrpc_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/mbacceleration_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/sliceconfig_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/o/openmesh/libopenmesh-${_openmeshver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/mb-pyserial_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/makerbot-driver_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/libdigitizer_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/miracle-grue_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"$_baseurl/m/makerware/mb-libjsoncpp_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb")
noextract=(
"makerware_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"conveyor_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"conveyor-ui_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"conveyor-common_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"libmbqtutils_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"libthing_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"libtinything_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"libtoolpathviz_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"mb-libjsoncpp_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"mb-fopenhack_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"mb-libjsonrpc_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"mbacceleration_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"sliceconfig_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"libopenmesh-${_openmeshver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"mb-pyserial_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"makerbot-driver_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"libdigitizer_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb"
"miracle-grue_${pkgver}-${_fakeubunturelease}_${_arch}.deb")


install="$pkgname.install"

package() {
    cd ${pkgdir}
	
    msg2 "Extracting DEBs"
        for file in $srcdir/*.deb; do ar p $file data.tar.xz | tar -xJ; done

    msg2 "Using modified .desktop file to avoid attempting to call python3.4 directly"
        sed -i 's/$SCRIPTDIR/env PATH=\/usr\/lib\/makerbot:$PATH $SCRIPTDIR/' usr/bin/makerware

    msg2 "Moving files around"
	mv lib/udev/ usr/lib/
	rm -r lib

    msg2 "Creating link to python3 to avoid an explicit dependence on pyhton 3.4"
        ln -s /usr/bin/python3 usr/lib/makerbot/python3.4
}

PKGBUILD_BOOST

# $Id$
# Maintainer:  Bartłomiej Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Ionut Biru <ibiru@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Stéphane Gaudreault <stephane@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: kevin <kevin@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Kritoke <kritoke@gamebox.net>
# Contributor: Luca Roccia <little_rock@users.sourceforge.net>

pkgbase=boost
pkgname=('boost-for-makerbot')
pkgver=1.58.0
_boostver=${pkgver//./_}
pkgrel=2
url='http://www.boost.org/'
arch=('x86_64')
license=('custom')
conflicts=('boost-libs=1.58.0')
makedepends=('icu>=55.1' 'python>=3.5' 'python<3.6' 'python2' 'bzip2' 'zlib' 'openmpi')
source=(https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgbase}/${pkgbase}/${pkgver}/${pkgbase}_${_boostver}.tar.bz2)
sha1sums=('2fc96c1651ac6fe9859b678b165bd78dc211e881')

build() {
   export _stagedir="${srcdir}/stagedir"
   local JOBS="$(sed -e 's/.*\(-j *[0-9]\+\).*/\1/' <<< ${MAKEFLAGS})"

   cd ${pkgbase}_${_boostver}

   ./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=gcc --with-icu --with-python=/usr/bin/python2 --with-libraries=program_options,filesystem,system,serialization,date_time,log

   _bindir="bin.linuxx86"
   [[ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]] && _bindir="bin.linuxx86_64"
   install -Dm755 tools/build/src/engine/$_bindir/b2 "${_stagedir}"/bin/b2

   # Add an extra python version. This does not replace anything and python 2.x
   # need to be the default.
   echo "using python : 3.5 : /usr/bin/python3 : /usr/include/python3.5m : /usr/lib ;" \
      >> project-config.jam

   # Support for OpenMPI
   echo "using mpi ;" >> project-config.jam

   # boostbook is needed by quickbook
   install -dm755 "${_stagedir}"/share/boostbook
   cp -a tools/boostbook/{xsl,dtd} "${_stagedir}"/share/boostbook/

   # default "minimal" install: "release link=shared,static
   # runtime-link=shared threading=single,multi"
   # --layout=tagged will add the "-mt" suffix for multithreaded libraries
   # and installs includes in /usr/include/boost.
   # --layout=system no longer adds the -mt suffix for multi-threaded libs.
   # install to ${_stagedir} in preparation for split packaging
   "${_stagedir}"/bin/b2 \
      variant=release \
      debug-symbols=off \
      threading=multi \
      runtime-link=shared \
      link=shared \
      toolset=gcc \
      python=3.5 \
      cflags="${CPPFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} -fPIC -O3" \
      cxxflags="${CPPFLAGS} ${CXXFLAGS} -std=c++14 -fPIC -O3" \
      linkflags="${LDFLAGS}" \
      --layout=system \
      --prefix="${_stagedir}" \
      ${JOBS} \
      install
}

package_boost-for-makerbot() {
   pkgdesc='Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries - runtime libraries'
   depends=('bzip2' 'zlib' 'icu')
   optdepends=('openmpi: for mpi support')

   install -dm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr
   cp -a "${_stagedir}"/lib "${pkgdir}"/usr
   # We don't want any links with generic names, or else we will conflict with later versions
   rm "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/*.so

   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/"${pkgbase}_${_boostver}/LICENSE_1_0.txt \
      "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/boost-for-makerbot/LICENSE_1_0.txt
}

Unfortunately I had to create a package for the old boost version as well - simply symlinking to the newer version worked for all programs except magic_grue, which segfaulted. I guess boost doesn't semver.

Can confirm that this method works as described (had to remove cmake which also depends on jsoncpp.)

Do we know exactly what stops the settings menu from coming up? I can poke around at that and see if I can find anything.

Hey,
I used this to build the program today and it worked, except for the settings-menu.

I was able to get some information in the log-file when I clicked the setting menu which is included here:

obj/src/util/slicelib.cpp:205: info
void SliceLibProcess::Private::start()
Thu Nov 3 09:12:35 2016
calling sliceconfig:
get_profile
-d (machine id):
replicator2x
-r (user print settings):
{
"extruders" : [ 1 ],
"quality" : 1
}

obj/src/util/slicelib.cpp:205: info
void SliceLibProcess::Private::start()
Thu Nov 3 09:12:35 2016
calling sliceconfig:
get_profile
-d (machine id):
replicator2x
-r (user print settings):
{
"extruders" : [ 1 ],
"quality" : 1
}

obj/src/view/editorwindow/editorwindow.cpp:1019: error
void EditorWindow::showSliceSettingsDialog()
Thu Nov 3 09:12:35 2016
ProfileListModel::profileAt() failed

Hope this helps. I will also try to dig a bit in why this happens