install problem in Ubuntu 9.10 karmic [SOLVED!!]

[Carlos Grohmann]

Hi, I managed to install survex 1.1.12 under Ubintu 9.10

First I had to install a new wxgtk from wxwidgets.org:

1- get the key:
 curl http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

2 - add this to your sources: (use "jaunty" as distro)
# wxWidgets/wxPython repository at apt.wxwidgets.org
    deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ jaunty-wx main

3 - install the "ansi" version of wxgtk-2.8

4 - now compile survex against this new wx-config:
./configure WXCONFIG=/usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-ansi-release-2.8

5 - be happy



for those interested, I installed my survex with checkinstall, so I
created a .deb which I will leave here:

http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano/temp/survex_1.1.12-1_i386.deb


best

Carlos





On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:32, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:41:09AM -0200, Carlos Grohmann wrote:
>> Since I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), I can't
>> install Survex 1.1 anymore. It depends on libwxgtk2.4, but I only have
>> 2.6 or 2.8.
>> Compiling isn't working either.
>
> The current releases and development snapshots require a "non-unicode"
> build of wxwidgets.  The libwxgtk2.4 package was configured that way
> but the newer packages are "unicode" builds.
>
> I have a couple of patches from people to convert survex to build with
> a "unicode" wxwidgets, but I've been chronically short of spare time
> for most of this year, and haven't made much headway on sorting out
> the rough edges on these.
>
> But I'm going on a caving expedition at the end of December, and another
> next year, which should motivate me to make some time to sort this all
> out.
>
>> Has anyone managed to install it? O r created a .deb based on the more
>> recent versions of wxgtk?
>
> You need to build wxwidgets from source and configure with:
>
> ./configure --with-opengl --disable-unicode
>
> Once you've install that, build Survex from source, pointing it at the
> wx-config for the wxwidgets you just installed, something like:
>
> ./configure WXCONFIG=/usr/local/bin/wx-config
>
>> I can install 1.0.39 from the repositories, but it's not the same, all
>> my .3d were build with 1.1.12, soI can't open then (i would have to
>> reprocess everything)
>
> I thought 1.0.39 was capable of reading files from 1.1.2, but just ignored
> some of the newer features, but I may be wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>



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Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil
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