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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I spent quite a few hours on this today.  I set up a PPA, did a backport of
wxpython3 (which provides most of these packages), and uploaded it.  The
build on the Ubuntu servers fails, due to the package not specifying
mesa-common-dev as a build-depends.  (This issue is fixed in Debian, for
what it's worth.)

I pinged the folks on the #ubuntu-packaging IRC in order to figure out what
my next step is, but I haven't gotten a reply yet.

Harrumph.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> > i did try this and it said it couldn't satisfy the dependancies..
>
> Hi Jake, you can still install the package this way, inserting the
> dependencies that need to be ignored. I built recent KiCads this way.
>
> sudo dpkg --install --ignore-depends=_______ python-wxgtk3.0.deb
>
> > 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.
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> My main machine is running Xubuntu 14.04. I can test this for you during a
> few weeks. After that, I plan tu update to 14.10 myself.
>
> Do I have to compile with KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON, or only
> KICAD_SCRIPTING?
>
> Let me know when the backports are ready.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam
>>
>> I have an ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) available, but I don't use it daily
>> though. I can still test the packages for you.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> 2014-10-18 15:20 GMT+02:00 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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