Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.
Good day folks,
I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor.
I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I
don't remember now, but could probably replicate if need be.
I also tried installing via apt-get, which left me with an outdated
distrobution of wxPython, and currently i'm getting the message when trying
to start Boa: Sorry! This version of Boa requires atleast wxPython 2.4.0.7
So I tried to get the packages from the wxPython site, but they only have
packages for Redhat, and I think Mandrake. I then tried to download and
convert with alien two packages:
// redhat 9 package for gtk2-ansi Python 2.2:
alien --to-deb wxPython2.5-gtk2-ansi-2.5.3.1-rh9_py2.2.i386.rpm
//redhat 9 package for gtk-ansi python 2.2:
alien --to-deb wxpython2.5-gtk-ansi-2.5.3.1-rh9_py2.2.i386.rpm
the first pacakge for gtk2-ansi won't even work, but the second package for
gtk-ansi creates a new deb package just fine. This package can be run with
Package Manager it seems, but when I try to install them I get the following
errors:
// BEGIN ERROR
<2.5-gtk-ansi-2.5.3.1-rh9_py2.2.i386.rpm;echo RESULT=$?
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
RESULT=1
// END ERROR
I've tried using apt-get to get libdb3 but it says I already have the latest
version. Is this some kind of problem with the package trying to use a redhat
setup on a debian machine? If you know of a link to a site that already
discusses this, I could use it.
*note* a lot of my problems (not rpm problems) might be because this is the
runtime, and not the common release, however you can only install one version
of wxPython and I don't really know how to uninstall it. Will the common
release from apt-get work, or will I need to uninstall this completely?
If this post belongs better somewhere else, please let me know and I will
repost it accordingly. Thank you in advance for any time you take to help me
out.
P.S. I'm a complete newbie to Linux, so please bare with me.
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