[wxPython-users] slax (or slackware) and wxpython ?

[Murat Erten]

2007/2/2, Horst JENS <horst.jens at chello.at>:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:29 -0800, Robin Dunn wrote:
> > Horst JENS wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > > I try to get wxpython running on slax live-cd but i make no progress.
> > > I use the current slax cd from www.slax.org (full and popcorn version)
> > > and want wxpython to work with python2.5 or python2.4.
> > >
> > > My problem is that i get errors about missing GTK modules and i can not
> > > figure out what to install or compile first to get wxpython running.
> >
> > What are the errors?
> >
>
> Thanks for the fast response. The errors were (if typing "import wx" on
> python2.5 prompt:
>
> =============================================================
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py",
> line 45, in <module>
>     from wx._core import *
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line
> 4, in <module>
>     import _core_
> ImportError: libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
> >>>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py",
> line 45, in <module>
>     from wx._core import *
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line
> 4, in <module>
>     import _core_
> ImportError: libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
> >>>
> ================================================================
>
> as far as i understand i miss some critical libwx package.
>
> There is no libwx-gtk package on the slackware netsite.
> Wich packages / modules do i have to install so that the wxpython
> package works ?
>
> I used the wxpython 2.8.0.1 slackware package from
> http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_view.php?by=name&name=wxpython&ver=11.0
>
> and converted it into a slax module with tgz2mo. (also replaced
> python2.4 with python2.5: mo2dir, dir2mo)
>
>
> -Horst
>
>
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I have downloaded and installed the slackware package and saw that
wxWidgets libs are not in that package. As Rich Shepard said you have
to download wxGTK-2.8.0 package as well. I didn't know that.

Maybe you can merge these two packages into one.