As i said i would, i edited kicad-install.sh to remove wxgtk3.0 and
instead I installed wxgtk2.8 and then ran kicad-install.sh
--install-or-update
it seems to have worked. I have not tried to make anything yet, but
eeschema and pcbnew open just fine... then i went looking for cvpcb...
cvpcb is gone?!?! i think i am happy about that! stuff looks really good
right now.
Are there any tests i should run to see if kicad actually works without
wxgtk3.0??
thanks
-jake
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Adam Wolf wrote:
Hi folks,
I threw together a PPA today, with the source packages of wxpython3 and
wxwidgets3 from 14.10, rebuilt for 14.04. It was relatively painless, after I
modified the backport
package script I was using to let me make arbitrary changes :) I added
mesa-common-dev as a build-dependency for wxpython3. (It looks like the Ubuntu
folks added this
dependency for wxpython3 in August, and then in the next update, accidentally
removed it.)
I have to stop working on this today, but if someone wants to play around with
it from here before I write more instructions...
https://launchpad.net/~adamwolf/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-trusty-backports
Don't let the Launchpad page fool you--there are 37 binary packages in the PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~adamwolf/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-trusty-backports/+packages).
Nick made some progress while I was on a walk this afternoon--I didn't quite
follow everything he did, so I continued this work.
Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L
*
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Adam Wolf <[email protected]>
wrote:
The plan is that most users will not compile KiCad.
This PPA will, at first, only contain the back ports of any packages
needed to build KiCad on 14.04.
In terms of new regular binary release, OS X is the first on my list, but
it is very close, thanks to the help of everyone on this list.
Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L
On Oct 18, 2014 5:28 PM, "Jake" <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you Adam for your work on this.
I haven't been back at sudoroom (where I am trying to install
kicad) to test the fixes that were mentioned below, but I think that anything
that makes
it easier to install kicad is good. Ideally it will be possible
for ubuntu 12.04 to install kicad by following instructions - keep in mind that
12.04
is LONG TERM SUPPORT and is still run by many people around the
world, for good reasons.
Will this PPA also include KiCAD itself? :) :) :)
-jake (dreaming of the good old wxgtk2.8 days)
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Adam Wolf wrote:
I spent quite a few hours on this today. I set up a PPA, did
a backport of wxpython3 (which provides most of these packages), and uploaded
it. The build on the Ubuntu servers
fails, due to the package not specifying mesa-common-dev as a
build-depends. (This issue is fixed in Debian, for what it's worth.)
I pinged the folks on the #ubuntu-packaging IRC in order to
figure out what my next step is, but I haven't gotten a reply yet.
Harrumph.
Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Carl Poirier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> i did try this and it said it couldn't satisfy the
dependancies..
Hi Jake, you can still install the package this way,
inserting the dependencies that need to be ignored. I built recent KiCads this
way.
sudo dpkg --install --ignore-depends=_______
python-wxgtk3.0.deb
> If I can find a few savvy volunteers here who use their
14.04 machines regularly and also want to test this for me, I can propose it be
included in official backports.
Hi Adam,
My main machine is running Xubuntu 14.04. I can test this for
you during a few weeks. After that, I plan tu update to 14.10 myself.
Do I have to compile with KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON, or only
KICAD_SCRIPTING?
Let me know when the backports are ready.
Regards,
Carl
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Nick Østergaard
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Adam
I have an ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) available, but I don't
use it daily
though. I can still test the packages for you.
Nick
2014-10-18 15:20 GMT+02:00 Adam Wolf
<[email protected]>:
> *sigh*
>
> I have begun the backports process.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports
>
> What this means is that I am creating a PPA of
packages that are needed for
> KiCad and are already in 14.10 (utopic), but
rejiggering the packages so
> they're meant for 14.04 (trusty).
>
> If I can find a few savvy volunteers here who use
their 14.04 machines
> regularly and also want to test this for me, I can
propose it be included in
> official backports.
>
> Hopefully this goes as smoothly as getting wxWidgets
3.0 working on this
> week's OS X release. (Sometimes I feel we spend more
time working on our
> dependencies than on KiCad!)
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jake <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>> i did try this and it said it couldn't satisfy the
dependancies..
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>
>>> So did you ever try what Moses suggested?
>>>
>>>
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg15067.html
>>>
>>> 2014-10-18 10:30 GMT+02:00 Jake <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> so i'm trying to install kicad on a fresh install
of Ubuntu 14.04, which
>>>> is
>>>> this years' long-term support version of Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> it should be easy right?
>>>>
>>>> but immediately, the kicad-install.sh script says
>>>> E: Unable to locate package python-wxgtk3.0
>>>> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
'python-wxgtk3.0'
>>>>
>>>> i looked into it and i see that python-wxgtk3.0 is
only available for
>>>> bleeding-edge installs of Ubuntu 14.10 which only
just now came out.
>>>>
>>>> this is very frustrating and basically means that
anyone not running
>>>> literally the latest system software can't install
kicad. Is this
>>>> really
>>>> necessary? I have python-wxgtk2.8 available to
me, is that not
>>>> sufficient?
>>>>
>>>> I am not an expert with aptitude and sources, and
i have no idea how to
>>>> get
>>>> python-wxgtk3.0 onto my system, so i just
installed python-wxgtk2.8
>>>> and i took out that line from kicad-install.sh and
i'm trying again.
>>>>
>>>> but if possible, i think it would be ideal if this
requirement were
>>>> taken
>>>> out. I can't in good conscience keep telling
people that they should
>>>> switch
>>>> to kicad if i can't even figure out how to install
it myself.
>>>>
>>>> apologies if i'm missing something basic, or if my
tone is frustrated.
>>>>
>>>> thank you,
>>>> -jake
>>>>
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