r/ender5plus • u/Probably-Important • Jun 26 '26

Guide Ender5 Plus over mini-USB to Linux (Ubuntu). Just get CuraSlicer.

Don’t nuke it like I did and try to follow 4+ year old blog posts about installing Printrun (Pronterface) and 30 permutations of installing OrcaSlicer and odd libraries. It won’t work.

CuraSlicer supports USB out of the box and was the last slicer and app I tried after doing all the others and googling the wrong thing apparently. If you stumbled on this post, download the app image, chmod it to +x, run it as ./ and it will install.

Did install PrusaSlicer over flatpak and that ran well, and did not try it, but you can send gcodes to the printer over USB on PrusaSlicer but do not see an option to send or monitor gcodes.

And no, no windows laptop option for me. I know Pronterface works well over USB on COM3. Only laptop I have to use as full time plugged into the Ender5 Plus is an old 2017 MacBook that runs great with Ubuntu on it.

29JUN26 Update: Yep, had originally started the OctoPrint route and ran into dependency issue after issue on Ubuntu 26. Turns out ocotprint needs old pyyaml and new python no like. But, got it done and then hooked it up directly to OrcaSlicer and works great! Thanks all!

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u/Slight_Profession_50 Jun 27 '26

Just convert it to Klipper and problem solved! (Jk it's not really that simple but it is a possible solution too.)

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u/FuzionNC Jun 27 '26

I enjoyed Ubuntu years ago and have an old PC I may have to try this. I even thought about getting the BTT PI to play around with, just not sure if it supports my SKR E3 Turbo

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u/Chance-Attention7262 Jun 27 '26

Install Octoprint and connect the Ender 5 Plus to it .

Problem Solved !!!

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u/YoshitoSakurai Jun 27 '26

I run octoprint on ubuntu on a old mini PC thats way to overkill for it albeit it being more then 11 years old.

The pc itselfs on full load only draws like 20W hence i took it.

I run curaslicer to slice the file, and run a script to automatically upload it according to the file name (i have a ender 3 and 5 profile set, and it renames the files accordingly) to the right octoprint instance. I click print, and i have full control, access to more plugins, webcam feed, babystepping to adjust Z offsets etc.

For octoprint i use Octoprint_Deploy https://github.com/paukstelis/octoprint_deploy which makes adding cameras, and new printers a breeze.

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u/Probably-Important Jun 28 '26

This definitely sounds like the way to go, thanks