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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, wxwidgets is available, but not wxpython.

2014-10-20 14:32 GMT+02:00 Benoît Roehr <benoit.roehr.ec@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Adam,
>
> I'm now on a Ubuntu 14.04 daily. Just tell me what to test exactly and
> how... But there is chance I'll build Kicad today so dependencies may be
> installed on this machine today.
>
> Also: wx3.0 is available in the official repositories now (I use synaptic)
>
> 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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