Re: Slic3r --gui won't run

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 09:59:59AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> AFAICT the problem packages are listed above:
> 
> wx3.0-headers         3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1
> libwxgtk-media3.0-0v5 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1
> libwxgtk3.0-0v5       3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1
> libwxbase3.0-dev      3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1
> 
> It wants to install the mainstream versions of these packages.

> I can only assume that's because there are higher versions in
> backports, but you're on stretch (of some sort) so I can't check here.

Here's what it should look like on an untainted stretch system:

$ apt-cache policy wx3.0-headers libwxgtk-media3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libwxbase3.0-dev
wx3.0-headers:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.2+dfsg-4
  Version table:
     3.0.2+dfsg-4 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
libwxgtk-media3.0-0v5:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.2+dfsg-4
  Version table:
     3.0.2+dfsg-4 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
libwxgtk3.0-0v5:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.2+dfsg-4
  Version table:
     3.0.2+dfsg-4 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
libwxbase3.0-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.2+dfsg-4
  Version table:
     3.0.2+dfsg-4 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

Gene has made his life harder by doing something outside of the norm,
again, and has not taken responsibility for his own changes, again.

As you said, backported (or third-party) packages that are in the way
should be removed.