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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I am a mint guy and the current mint release has python-wxgtk2.8

Cheers
Fabrizio

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 9/30/2014 4:13 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > 2014-09-30 10:39 GMT+02:00 Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx
> >:
> >> Hello guys,
> >>  installing KiCad via the Linux script on Ubuntu 12.04.
> >> When I run the script, I get the following error:
> >>
> >> $ ./kicad-install.sh --install-or-update
> >> step 1) installing pre-requisites
> >> Reading package lists... Done
> >> Building dependency tree
> >> Reading state information... Done
> >> Note, selecting 'libglew1.6-dev' instead of 'libglew-dev'
> >> E: Unable to locate package python-wxgtk3.0
> >> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-wxgtk3.0'
> >>
> >>
> >> python-wxgtk3.0 seems not available for Linux Mint too.
> >>
> >> any solution? can we relax the python-wxgt version and use the 2.9?
> >> cheers
> >> Fabrizio
> >
> > Is there even any distribution shipping 2.9? I have only seen 2.8 for
> > python-wxgtk and the other wx stuff jumped to 3.0 not even ubuntu
> > 14.04 trusty LTS ship 3.0 of python-wxgtk.
> >
>
> Am I the only one using Debian testing which historically has not
> exactly been bleeding edge?  This has to be the first time ever that
> there is a package in Debian testing that is not in the current release
> of Ubuntu or one of the other Debian derivatives.  The best way to get
> wxPython 3 would be to add the appropriate entry to your apt
> sources.list and build the package for your distro by running
>
> apt-get update                    # Update the package list.
> apt-get build-dep package-name    # Get the package build dependencies.
> apt-get source package-name       # Get the package source.
> cd package-name
> fakeroot debian/rules binary      # Build the package.
> sudo dpkg -i package-name.deb     # Install your shiny new package.
>
> More on how to build packages from source for Debian based distros can
> be found here: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
>
>
>
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