installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

[Colin J. Williams]

Jp Calderone wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:29:53 +0100, Peter Maas <peter at somewhere.com> wrote:
> 
>>Diez B. Roggisch schrieb:
>>
>>>>Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done.
>>>>Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard
>>>>on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython/Lin
>>>>are made by the same developers. My guess: the software deployment
>>>>infrastructure on Linux needs to be improved.
>>>
>>>
>>>On debian, it 
>>>
>>>apt-get install wxPython2.5.3
>>>
>>
>>I have heard praises of Debian's install system but Debian is quite
>>conservative with latest versions. There are some packages (e.g. Python,
>>PostgreSQL, Subversion) where I'd like to have the latest versions.
>>I don't want to be too tightly bound to the update cycles of the
>>Linux distribution.
>>
> 
> 
> exarkun at boson:~$ apt-cache show python2.4
> Package: python2.4
> Priority: optional
> Section: python
> Installed-Size: 10972
> Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2.3.97-2
> Provides: python2.4-cjkcodecs
> Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.2, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libssl0.9.7, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
> Suggests: python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-japanese-codecs, python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-korean-codecs, python2.4-doc
> Conflicts: python2.4-dev (<< 2.3.95-2)
> Filename: pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.3.97-2_i386.deb
> Size: 3503764
> MD5sum: 519ed28c52bff645b311b8d5d27b2318
> Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.4)
>  Version 2.4 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language,
>  includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for
>  network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.
> 
> Package: python2.4
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: python
> Installed-Size: 9764
> Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
> Version: 2.3.90-1
> Replaces: python2.4-xmlbase
> Provides: python2.4-xmlbase
> Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.2, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libssl0.9.7, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
> Recommends: python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-cjkcodecs | python2.4-japanese-codecs, python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-cjkcodecs | python2.4-korean-codecs
> Suggests: python2.4-doc
> Conflicts: python2.4-xmlbase, python2.4-csv
> Conffiles:
>  /etc/python2.4/site.py b448b0f87294e041b8276ea3459df4a8
> Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.4)
>  Version 2.4 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language,
>  includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for
>  network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.
> 
>   This is a long and obnoxious way of pointing out that Python 2.4 is already available as a Python package :)  How much more up to date software can you ask for?
> 
>   And even if there are packages that aren't available, don't you think effort put into a packaging system would better be put into apt than an entirely new system that is guaranteed to be less useful than apt for many years?
> 
>   Jp
Or synaptic, which puts a GUI layer on top of apt.

Colin W.