ubuntu installation woes

I think I ran into the same problem: there two versions of wxPython install on Ubuntu: 2.6 and 2.8. For some reason, the default version is 2.6.

I haven’t figured out how to fix that (I lost interest). However, I discovered that if I added two lines before my ‘import wx’:

+import wxversion

+wxversion.select(‘2.8’)

import wx

Then my application worked. It’s temporary fix: I don’t want to limit myself to 2.8 permanently, but at least I can still run.

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On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Gregg Caines cainus@gmail.com wrote:

Hey all, I’m getting the following when trying to use wx in a simple script:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “hello.py”, line 179, in

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):

AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘Frame’

I’ve recently installed on ubuntu (precise) following http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian and trying both ‘natty’ and ‘precise’ dist values.

python version is 2.7.3

dir(wx) is just [‘builtins’, ‘doc’, ‘file’, ‘name’, ‘package’, ‘file_get_contents’]

wx.file is ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx.pyc’

Do I have a broken installation? Can anyone tell me what I probably did wrong if so?

Thanks!

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You could use ensureMinimal to make sure that your version is at least 2.8.

Gadget/Steve

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On 24/09/2012 4:27 AM, Kevin O. Grover wrote:

I think I ran into the same problem: there two versions of wxPython
install on Ubuntu: 2.6 and 2.8. For some reason, the default version
is 2.6.

I haven't figured out how to fix that (I lost interest). However, I
discovered that if I added two lines before my 'import wx':

+import wxversion
+wxversion.select('2.8')
import wx

Then my application worked. It's temporary fix: I don't want to limit
myself to 2.8 permanently, but at least I can still run.