Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-09 Thread Ed Leafe
On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:19 AM, Peter Maas wrote: Recently I replaced Win2k with Linux on my desktop computer. Using mostly multi-platform software I thought this would be easy. It was not as easy as expected getting wxPython to work. There seemed to be no SuSE RPM so I installed from source. Here ar

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-06 Thread rido dodol
Install ubuntu linuxget wxpython with synaptic...is easy!!! On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:19:12 +0100, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I replaced Win2k with Linux on my desktop computer. Using mostly > multi-platform software I thought this would be easy. It was not as > easy as exp

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-03 Thread Michael Hobbs
Daniel Bickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have no way to build it on Windows though, as I don't have Visual C++ >> 7.1, for that we must wait for Robin Dunn. > > Would it be too difficult of a task to try getting the build working > with Dev-C++? That way those without enough incentive for pu

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-03 Thread Rob Williscroft
Daniel Bickett wrote in news:mailman.7076.1102081193.5135.python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: >> I have no way to build it on Windows though, as I don't have Visual C++ >> 7.1, for that we must wait for Robin Dunn. > > Would it be too difficult of a task to try getting the build workin

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-03 Thread Daniel Bickett
> I have no way to build it on Windows though, as I don't have Visual C++ > 7.1, for that we must wait for Robin Dunn. Would it be too difficult of a task to try getting the build working with Dev-C++? That way those without enough incentive for purchasing Visual C++ (in excess of $100, I believe)

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Simon John
I have used the Fedora2 RPM's of wxPython 2.5.3.1 successfully on SUSE 9.1 Pro, 9.2 Pro and SLES 9 (and Fedora 3 for that matter) so you don't need to get a specific RPM for SUSE. I even built wxPython 2.5.3.1 with Python 2.4 on Fedora 2 today, it was not that hard - just followed http://wxpython.

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Colin J. Williams
Jp Calderone wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:29:53 +0100, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done. Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard on Linux and so easy on Windows? After a

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2004-12-02, Peter Maas schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: >>>Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done. >>>Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard >>>on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I have heard praises of Debian's install system but Debian is quite > conservative with latest versions. There are some packages (e.g. Python, > PostgreSQL, Subversion) where I'd like to have the latest versions. > I don't want to be too tightly bound to the update cycles of the > Linux distribut

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Jp Calderone
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:29:53 +0100, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: > >>Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done. > >>Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard > >>on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPy

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>The package for wxPython2.5.3 currently is available >for Debian Sid/unstable but not for Sarge/testing Nevertheless, the point remains valid: _If_ you have proper dependency-management, installation of packages is easy. Of course tracking dependencies takes effort, and so unless a g

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Maas
Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done. Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython/Lin are made by the same developers. My guess: the software deplo

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
| On debian, it | | apt-get install wxPython2.5.3 | | So it clearly depends on you distribution. | | That this is unfortunate is of course true... | Diez The package for wxPython2.5.3 currently is available for Debian Sid/unstable but not for Sarge/testing -- Cousin Stanley Huma

Re: installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

2004-12-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done. > Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard > on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython/Lin > are made by the same developers. My guess: the software deployment > infrastruc