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Re: kicad-install.sh requiring python-wxgtk3.0

 

2014-10-20 16:54 GMT+02:00 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.

Do you mean that the kicad-install.sh script does not add the PPA if needed?

> 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>
> 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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