Help installing wxwidgets on Ubuntu

wxPython Users
1

Hi,

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I think I'm following the
instruction on http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian
exactly(?)

Per instructions:

I did this:

$ curl http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -
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OK

I added to /etc/apt/sources.list:

# wxWidgets/wxPython repository at apt.wxwidgets.org
deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ maverick-wx main
deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ maverick-wx main

When I try sudo apt-get update I get:

Ign http://apt.wxwidgets.org maverick-wx/main i386 Packages
Err http://apt.wxwidgets.org maverick-wx/main Sources
  404 Not Found
Err http://apt.wxwidgets.org maverick-wx/main i386 Packages
  404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://apt.wxwidgets.org/dists/maverick-wx/main/source/Sources.gz
404 Not Found

Help appreciated. Thanks,

Lee G.
W: Failed to fetch http://apt.wxwidgets.org/dists/maverick-wx/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
404 Not Found

2

There is no maverick at that site, they have indexing enabled, so if
you browse to the dist/ directory...

http://apt.wxwidgets.org/dists/

So, that is your issue. Try using lucid instead (in sources.list).
Also, there is an older version in the default repositories, so you
can install without adding a new apt source...

$ apt-cache search wdpython
python-wxgtk2.8 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding)

$ sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

If you don't need 2.9 for some specific reason, 2.8 should work fine for you.

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:43 PM, goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com> wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I think I'm following the
instruction on InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian - wxPyWiki
exactly(?)

3

I don’t think 2.9 is in the lucid repos either. IIRC there was some bother with the build scripts for ubuntu/debian, and so, those packages were never built.

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Somebody volunteered to take over the maintanence of the wx debian package scripts and other files for 2.9 and beyond, and then he vanished. Probably got scared away when he took a good look at what is there already. I don't have time to maintain those myself any more (and I wasn't very good at it anyway) so it's basically waiting for another volunteer to work on it in the wx tree or for Debian/Ubuntu to start making packages for their repos.

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On 4/14/11 7:06 PM, Micah Nordland wrote:

I don't think 2.9 is in the lucid repos either. IIRC there was some
bother with the build scripts for ubuntu/debian, and so, those packages
were never built.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman

5

do we know if 2.9 will be in ubuntu 11.04 with the ubuntu team building it?

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Probably not. If there was somebody working on it I would have expected them to be asking questions on wx-dev. You should ask the current package maintainers for the 2.8 packages and/or search on launchpad.net for any information about it.

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On 4/15/11 7:34 PM, Micah Nordland wrote:

do we know if 2.9 will be in ubuntu 11.04 with the ubuntu team building it?

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Software Craftsman