Trouble installing wxPython in Ubuntu

wxPython Users
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I followed the instructions on the download page for adding the
necessary lines to my sources.list file, then I tried to install
wxPython (using aptitude, not apt-get, if that matters), and I got
this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for python-wxgtk2.6
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "python-wxtools"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "wx2.6-il8n"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done

Anything I can do to install it? Is it necessary to use apt-get instead?

Thanks,
John

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Well, I’ve installed wxPython on ubuntu yesterday, without any problems.I’ve recently
downloaded ubuntu 6.06 dapper, used the Synaptic Package… in the settings checked
the binary universe repositories maintained by the community, and searched for

wxpython, then checked it and i had it installed in a few minutes.

If it helps you, the repositories were:

url: http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Distribution: dapper
Components: universe
Type: Binary

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2006/8/6, John Salerno johnjsal@gmail.com:

I followed the instructions on the download page for adding the
necessary lines to my sources.list file, then I tried to install
wxPython (using aptitude, not apt-get, if that matters), and I got
this:

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done
Building tag database… Done
No candidate version found for python-wxgtk2.6
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “python-wxtools”

Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “wx2.6-il8n”
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information… Done

Anything I can do to install it? Is it necessary to use apt-get instead?

Thanks,
John

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John Salerno wrote:

I followed the instructions on the download page for adding the
necessary lines to my sources.list file, then I tried to install
wxPython (using aptitude, not apt-get, if that matters), and I got
this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for python-wxgtk2.6
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "python-wxtools"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "wx2.6-il8n"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done

Anything I can do to install it? Is it necessary to use apt-get instead?

You probably didn't do an update. I'm not sure what aptitude calls it, but you need to do tell apt to update its local copies of the package lists from each repository. Once it has done that then it should be able to see the packages in wxPython repository.

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