wxPython on Debian?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 16 20:30:18 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:42:19PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
> On a Debian testing system I wanted to install the wxPython (GUI stuff)
> module.  I apt-got the bits I thought I needed, but got errors about
> failure to import modules wxPython and wx.  
> 
> It turns out that if you have both python 2.3 and 2.4 installed, you
> only get the wxPython stuff imported into 2.3.  However, this was fixed
> quickly and simply (once I knew what the problem was) by doing this:
> 
> "cp -r /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/* /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/."
> 
> It is inelegant, but it does work, which I think is a real plus.

Yeah quite inellegant.  Default python is 2.3 on Debian 3.1, so that is
what everything targets.  Only some things support other versions.

Good to know that 2.3 and 2.4 are at least compatible enough that you
can just copy it.

Any particular reason for wanting 2.4 over 2.3?

Lennart Sorensen
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