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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

If you are using Fedora 32, then you shouldn't be using Python 2 (they
deprecated it in this release with limited exceptions...), and it
definitely doesn't have a Python2 version of wxPython.

-Ian

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:27 AM Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14.05.20 07:28, victor tejada wrote:
>
> > Hello, guys, I tried to compile kicad source code on fedora 32 but the
> > error is
> > "ImportError: No module named wx
> > CMake Error at CMakeModules/FindwxPython.cmake:52 (message):
> >  wxPython/Phoenix does not appear to be installed on the system
> > Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >  CMakeLists.txt:740 (find_package)"
> > so wxPython 4.0.1 is installed on my pc.
>
> Check that it's using the Python version that wxPython was compiled
> against. IIRC KiCad still selects Python 2 unless told to use Python 3,
> so if you have wxPython for Python 3, it will not be usable.
>
> On any modern distro, you probably need to configure with
>
>         -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3:BOOL=ON
>         -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON:BOOL=ON
>         -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX:BOOL=ON
>
>    Simon
>
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