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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Samuel,

What do you mean "fighting to have the ppa come back".

If you use the KiCad Trusty Backports PPA I created this weekend, it
contains python-wxgtk3.0-dev.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L, LLC

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently fighting to have the ppa come back... As I see there is a
> dependence missing in the script kicad-install.sh:
> => python-wxgtk3.0-dev is needed too when I use ppa from Adam.
>
> Regards,
> Le 20/10/2014 14:35, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
> > 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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