On Monday 20 July 2020 13:48:12 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:38:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > These 4 pkgs have now been downgraded to oldstable. And now a launch > > of slic3r --gui yells about a missing Wx.pm. Not Wx3.pm, but Wx.pm. > > > > What perl pkg, available for stretch, contains that module? > > You have two ways to find out. > > One is to install the apt-file package, and use it locally. > > The other way is to search for the filename in the repositories, using > the https://packages.debian.org/ web site (or the judd bot in IRC).
apt-file was helpfull, thank you. It gave me the final clue. By setting synaptic to prefer oldstable, and removing the stuff slic3r complained about, then re-installing the oldstable stuff, with about 3 trips around the mulberry bush, I got it to run!!! All w/o a reboot. Now to find if its any better than Cura. Thanks a bunch all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>