From: RaW <raw73@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T00:06:43+09:00
Subject: Re: wxRuby problem on Ubuntu

Daniel Lewis napisa�(a):
> Oh yes, I just remembered. Do you have WxWidgets installed as well as
> WxRuby? - You need WxWidgets 2.4 (It will not work with 2.5). You can
> get it from the apt-get / Synaptic Package Manager.
> 
It's not so easy as it seems.

$ apt-cache search wx
libwxbase2.4 - wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support classes of 
wxWindows toolkit
libwxbase2.4-dbg - wxBase library (debug) - non-GUI support classes of 
wxWindows toolkit
libwxbase2.4-dev - wxBase library (development) - non-GUI support 
classes of wxWindows toolkit
libwxgtk2.4 - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime)
libwxgtk2.4-contrib - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (runtime 
contrib libs)
libwxgtk2.4-contrib-dev - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit 
(development contrib libs)
libwxgtk2.4-dbg - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ 
development)
libwxgtk2.4-dev - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ 
development)
libwxgtk2.4-python - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython 
binding)libwxgtk2.5-dbg - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ 
development)
libwxgtk2.5-dev - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ 
development)
libwxgtk2.5.3 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime)
wx2.5-common - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (common support 
files)
wx2.5-doc - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (documentation)
wx2.5-examples - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (examples)
wx2.5-headers - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (header files)
wx2.5-i18n - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (i18n support)
wxwin2.4-doc - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (documentation)
wxwin2.4-examples - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (examples)
wxwin2.4-headers - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (header files)
wxwin2.4-i18n - wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (i18n support)

Which one is the (as You've wrote) 'wxWidgets2.4'?
I have installed packages:

$ dpkg -l |grep wx
ii  libwxbase2.4   2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI 
support c
ii  libwxbase2.4-d 2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxBase library (development) - non-GUI 
suppo
ii  libwxgtk2.4    2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI 
toolkit (GT
ii  libwxgtk2.4-co 2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI 
toolkit (ru
ii  libwxgtk2.4-co 2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI 
toolkit (de
ii  libwxgtk2.4-de 2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI 
toolkit (GT
ii  wxwin2.4-heade 2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI 
toolkit (he
ii  wxwin2.4-i18n  2.4.2.6ubuntu1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI 
toolkit (i1

And I can't see anything else to install for wxWidget2.4.

> It won't work with WxWidgets 2.5! - You must get 2.4.
> 
I had installed wxwidgets2.5 and it didn't worked also.
-- 
RaW