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[Paul Rubin]

Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> writes:
> > It did last time I tried installing it, which was maybe 3-6 months ago.
> > Someone posted that it had been updated recently.
> 
> Looking on SourceForge, I see that 2.4.2.4 had GTK2 builds and it's
> dated 2003-10-01. 

That's sort of interesting.  I think I downloaded whatever was on
wxpython.org.

 I also know that GTK2 support came well before this
> and was in fact a build option long before Robin made an official
> release.  Unfortunately SF doesn't go back any further than this and I
> don't have time to research it further.   Nevertheless it's provable
> that wxPython had GTK2 releases almost 2 years ago.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718&package_id=10559
> 
> > I spent several hours trying to install wxPython on Linux without
> > success (a lot of that was figuring out that some undefined symbol it

> I've seen a few people run into issues like this, usually as the result
> of autoconf/automake finding obsolete libraries on a system (e.g. if you
> upgraded your redhat from 7.3 to 9.0 and stale libraries were left around).  

No this was definitely a GTK issue.  I avoid OS upgrades because of
issues like what you describe.  If I want a new OS, I buy a new hard
drive and install the new OS from scratch, or even buy a new computer.