Ok, I thought this was going to be easy...
I did a clean upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, so I needed to do a fresh build of
Maxima, wxMaxima, etc... I installed Maxima 5.17 using CLisp, seemed to
go fine, haven't yet had the chance to do anything with it yet... I did
a latest download of wxMaxima & I followed the instructions at the WxPy
Wiki <http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian>; for apt-get
install for wxWidgets... this did its' thing in the terminal... but when
I went to ./configure, etc., wxMaxima I get the following message & then
a configure error message, which made my head spin... (lots of thoughts,
no answers):
'henry at henry-heron:~$ cd /home/henry/wxMaxima-0.8.1
henry at henry-heron:~/wxMaxima-0.8.1$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for wx-config... no
configure: error:
wxWidgets must be installed on your system.
Please check that wx-config is in path, the directory
where wxWidgets libraries are installed (returned by
'wx-config --libs' or 'wx-config --static --libs' command)
is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable and
wxWidgets version is 2.8.0 or above.'
Yikes! What the heck is "in path" ??? What path, where? (one note, wxPy
does not claim this .deb version is, or is not compatible with Intrepid,
I just assumed they have not updated their web site, especially as it
downloaded...)
So then I tried to do another 'apt-get' etc to see if wxWidgets actually
did a successful install & I got the following.
':~$ sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxtools python-wxaddons
wx2.8-i18n
[sudo] password for henry:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-wxgtk2.8 is already the newest version.
python-wxtools is already the newest version.
python-wxaddons is already the newest version.
wx2.8-i18n is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
henry at henry-heron:~$ wx-config --libs
The program 'wx-config' can be found in the following packages:
* libwxbase2.6-dbg
* libwxgtk2.6-dbg
* libwxbase2.6-dev
* libwxgtk2.4-dbg
* libwxgtk2.6-dev
* libwxgtk2.8-dev
* libwxbase2.8-dev
* libwxgtk2.8-dbg
* libwxbase2.4-dev
* libwxbase2.4-dbg
* libwxgtk2.4-dev
* libwxbase2.8-dbg
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
bash: wx-config: command not found
henry at henry-heron:~$ '
Hope this makes some sense. Many thanks for any information leading me
back to 'in path'
Henry