Wxpython 2.8.12 installation

Ken_Barron · June 21, 2018, 9:56am

Hi everyone I posted yesterday asking about my 4.0.2 installation but I’m starting to suspect that the documentation for the software I need symoro+ isn’t up to date and that it might not have compatibility with newer versions of wxPython.

I’m now trying to install an older version 2.8.12 that I got the tar.gz off Sourceforge but I’m finding certain aspects of the installation documentation incomplete or difficult to understand,

For example the first instruction in Build.txt is to create a build directory in the wxWidgets directory but when I look in the download there is no wxWidgets directory. There is a wxWidgets folder that contains another wxwidgets folder and another folder just called wx. The screenshot whatDirectory.png is the first section of the installation instructions from Build.txt that I’m not getting, and wxPythonDir.png and wxPythonDownloadDir.png are screenshots of the directories and files there are in the actual download.

INSTALL.txt (5.79 KB)

BUILD.txt (24.2 KB)

Robin · June 21, 2018, 5:11pm

It looks like symoro runs okay with wxPython 3.0, and that version is easier to build than 2.8.x was. You should also check your linux distro’s package manager. It is likely that there is a 2.8 or 3.0 version available for installation there. You may need to hint around a little, sometimes they use unintuitive package names. Alternatively, an easy way to get wxPython 3 on Linux without building is to use a tool like conda or Enthought’s edm. With those tools you can create a separate Python environment and install packages into it from their repositories. (I just used edm to test symoro with wxPython 3.)

While the application did start up and generally appeared to be working okay, I got OpenGL errors when trying to do the visualization, so it seems there are still other problems that will need to be resolved.

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On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:56:22 AM UTC-7, Ken Barron wrote:

Hi everyone I posted yesterday asking about my 4.0.2 installation but I’m starting to suspect that the documentation for the software I need symoro+ isn’t up to date and that it might not have compatibility with newer versions of wxPython.

I’m now trying to install an older version 2.8.12 that I got the tar.gz off Sourceforge but I’m finding certain aspects of the installation documentation incomplete or difficult to understand,

For example the first instruction in Build.txt is to create a build directory in the wxWidgets directory but when I look in the download there is no wxWidgets directory. There is a wxWidgets folder that contains another wxwidgets folder and another folder just called wx. The screenshot whatDirectory.png is the first section of the installation instructions from Build.txt that I’m not getting, and wxPythonDir.png and wxPythonDownloadDir.png are screenshots of the directories and files there are in the actual download.

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Robin

swt2c · June 21, 2018, 5:15pm

From his earlier screenshots, it looks like he's on Ubuntu. If so, he should just be able to 'apt-get install python-wxgtk3.0' and get wxPython 3.

Scott

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Robin Dunn wrote:

On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:56:22 AM UTC-7, Ken Barron wrote:
      Hi everyone I posted yesterday asking about my 4.0.2
      installation but I'm starting to suspect that the documentation
      for the software I need symoro+ isn't up to date and that it
      might not have compatibility with newer versions of wxPython.

I'm now trying to install an older version 2.8.12 that I got the
tar.gz off Sourceforge but I'm finding certain aspects of the
installation documentation incomplete or difficult to understand,

For example the first instruction in Build.txt is to create a build
directory in the wxWidgets directory but when I look in the download
there is no wxWidgets directory. There is a wxWidgets folder that
contains another wxwidgets folder and another folder just called wx.
The screenshot whatDirectory.png is the first section of the
installation instructions from Build.txt that I'm not getting, and
wxPythonDir.png and wxPythonDownloadDir.png are screenshots of the
directories and files there are in the actual download.

It looks like symoro runs okay with wxPython 3.0, and that version is easier
to build than 2.8.x was. You should also check your linux distro's package
manager. It is likely that there is a 2.8 or 3.0 version available for
installation there. You may need to hint around a little, sometimes they use
unintuitive package names. Alternatively, an easy way to get wxPython 3 on
Linux without building is to use a tool like conda or Enthought's edm. With
those tools you can create a separate Python environment and install
packages into it from their repositories. (I just used edm to test symoro
with wxPython 3.)

Ken_Barron · June 22, 2018, 8:36am

Thanks guys I’ve got Symoro working now you’ve been a lot of help. Cheers!

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On 21 June 2018 at 18:15, Scott Talbert swt@techie.net wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Robin Dunn wrote:
On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:56:22 AM UTC-7, Ken Barron wrote:
  Hi everyone I posted yesterday asking about my 4.0.2

  installation but I'm starting to suspect that the documentation

  for the software I need symoro+ isn't up to date and that it

  might not have compatibility with newer versions of wxPython.
I’m now trying to install an older version 2.8.12 that I got the

tar.gz off Sourceforge but I’m finding certain aspects of the

installation documentation incomplete or difficult to understand,

For example the first instruction in Build.txt is to create a build

directory in the wxWidgets directory but when I look in the download

there is no wxWidgets directory. There is a wxWidgets folder that

contains another wxwidgets folder and another folder just called wx.

The screenshot whatDirectory.png is the first section of the

installation instructions from Build.txt that I’m not getting, and

wxPythonDir.png and wxPythonDownloadDir.png are screenshots of the

directories and files there are in the actual download.

It looks like symoro runs okay with wxPython 3.0, and that version is easier

to build than 2.8.x was. You should also check your linux distro’s package

manager. It is likely that there is a 2.8 or 3.0 version available for

installation there. You may need to hint around a little, sometimes they use

unintuitive package names. Alternatively, an easy way to get wxPython 3 on

Linux without building is to use a tool like conda or Enthought’s edm. With

those tools you can create a separate Python environment and install

packages into it from their repositories. (I just used edm to test symoro

with wxPython 3.)

From his earlier screenshots, it looks like he’s on Ubuntu. If so, he should just be able to ‘apt-get install python-wxgtk3.0’ and get wxPython 3.

Scott

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SIDDHARTH_MARAJE · October 15, 2020, 3:25pm

Hey man. I have same issue. Can you explain how did you solve the problem?

When I run the setup.py from symoro/bin, searching for wxPython is made. It searches in pypi.org and the downloads 4.1.0 version of the wxPython.

How can I force the compiler to search for the correct wxPython?

Robin · October 15, 2020, 7:54pm

Symoro’s setup.py specifies its wxPython dependency as wxPython>=2.8.11 which means that it will get the newest version from PyPI. If symoro is not compatible with 4.1.0 then that dependency should be changed to whatever range of wxPython version that it is compatible with.