[wxpython-users] ANN: wxPython 2.8.9.0

[Paul McNett]

Paul McNett wrote:
> Michele Petrazzo - Unipex srl wrote:
>> Robin Dunn wrote:
>>>
>>> Announcing ----------
>>>
>>
>> Hi Robin e thanks for the new version.
>> A problem that I found it's that, since I have debian lenny (that has
>> the python 2.5 has default), I cannot install directly the wxpython from
>> the repository.
>> It's there the possibility that there'll be create also the lenny 
>> package?
> 
> I'm having the following problem on Ubuntu Gutsy:
> 
> Setting up python-wxgtk2.8 (2.8.9.0-0) ...
> Compiling 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/tools/Editra/src/eclib/outbuff.py 
> ...
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/tools/Editra/src/eclib/outbuff.py", 
> line 665
>     finally:
>           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> I even went so far as to apt-get remove python2.4, but it still tries to 
> compile in python2.4.

BTW, apt-get remove python2.4 had errors, resulting in it not being 
removed. I also had to:

apt-get remove python-wxgtk2.8
apt-get remove python2.4-minimal
apt-get autoremove

After that, I could:

apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

and it appears to have installed, and to work, fine.

Paul