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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*sigh*

I have begun the backports process.  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

What this means is that I am creating a PPA of packages that are needed for
KiCad and are already in 14.10 (utopic), but rejiggering the packages so
they're meant for 14.04 (trusty).

If I can find a few savvy volunteers here who use their 14.04 machines
regularly and also want to test this for me, I can propose it be included
in official backports.

Hopefully this goes as smoothly as getting wxWidgets 3.0 working on this
week's OS X release.  (Sometimes I feel we spend more time working on our
dependencies than on KiCad!)

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne, LLC

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> i did try this and it said it couldn't satisfy the dependancies..
>
>
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>
>  So did you ever try what Moses suggested?
>>
>> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg15067.html
>>
>> 2014-10-18 10:30 GMT+02:00 Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> so i'm trying to install kicad on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, which
>>> is
>>> this years' long-term support version of Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> it should be easy right?
>>>
>>> but immediately, the kicad-install.sh script says
>>> E: Unable to locate package python-wxgtk3.0
>>> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-wxgtk3.0'
>>>
>>> i looked into it and i see that python-wxgtk3.0 is only available for
>>> bleeding-edge installs of Ubuntu 14.10 which only just now came out.
>>>
>>> this is very frustrating and basically means that anyone not running
>>> literally the latest system software can't install kicad.  Is this really
>>> necessary?  I have python-wxgtk2.8 available to me, is that not
>>> sufficient?
>>>
>>> I am not an expert with aptitude and sources, and i have no idea how to
>>> get
>>> python-wxgtk3.0 onto my system, so i just installed python-wxgtk2.8
>>> and i took out that line from kicad-install.sh and i'm trying again.
>>>
>>> but if possible, i think it would be ideal if this requirement were taken
>>> out.  I can't in good conscience keep telling people that they should
>>> switch
>>> to kicad if i can't even figure out how to install it myself.
>>>
>>> apologies if i'm missing something basic, or if my tone is frustrated.
>>>
>>> thank you,
>>> -jake
>>>
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