apparently the two can’t easily live happily together. while running through the initial tutorials to refresh my headspace I ran into a segmentation fault at the step of running
rosrun rqt_graph rqt graph
this post explains what’s going on
http://answers.ros.org/question/253655/rqt-segmentation-fault-following-tutorials/
but i am going to need to have cura working as well.. so will have to revisit