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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

Of course I use your PPA you have created. Thank you a lot...

About fighting it was just a joke to explain I'm currently doing some
work to have back the ppa with up to date kicad...

Anyway, this dependency is missing in kicad-install.sh as I see on last
revision of this file.

Regards
Le 20/10/2014 16:24, Adam Wolf a écrit :
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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