Thread: [Pythoncard-users] installing on Fedora Core 3

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Hi everyone,

I'm a new would-be user of Pythoncard, I found it while looking for a 
modern day open source variant of hypercard.

Unfortunately I have not been able to install it on my fedora core 3 
linux box. I'm not a great linux expert, but I know my way around a 
little. I'm pretty sure it's wxpython that gives problems. I have 
written down my installation attempts as a sort of how to install guide, 
except it doesn't work. Here it is, I hope someone can help out, or this 
provides at least a starting point for other fedora users...

Roan

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Friday, March 11th, 2005
I will try to install Pythoncard on Fedora Core 3 Linux.

The page
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/linux_installation.html
explains the install for mandrake and debian, maybe I learn something 
for fedora too.

First I check wether python is installed:

$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 2005, 12:11:53)
[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> (Type Ctrl-D here to exit)

and this is so. Good, we're almost done :-)
(if you don't have python installed, use your package manager to do so)

My python version is 2.3.something so I download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPythonGTK-py2.3-2.5.1.5-1.i386.rpm
as advised in the linux_installation.html text.

I find the downloaded package with my file browser, right-click on it, 
and select "Open with 'Install packages'". I give my root password, and 
it installs without any problem.

I download the pythoncard "tarball" from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pythoncard/PythonCard-0.8.1.tar.gz?download

I just downloaded the .tar.gz file and unpacked it, then I saw a big 
directory with lots of files in it.

I was hoping this would be it, but I was out of luck. Running one of the 
examples (./samples/minimal/minimal.py) failed. After searching on the 
net for a while, I noticed another python application installing itself 
by using

$python setup.py install

and sure enough, executing the command from the directory of pythoncard 
worked. A lot of config output flew by and when it was done I could 
*almost* run the example

./samples/minimal/minimal.py

it now gave an error dialog, the minimum requirements to run were 
wxpython 2.5.2.8 instead of 2.5.1.5 (so there's a wrong mention in the 
documentation on the pythoncard website).

Luckily I found a recent version (2.5.3.1) on the sourceforge project 
page of wxpython:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython

I couldn't find an rpm just like the one I downloaded for version 
2.5.1.5! And there are no prebuilt packages for fedora core 3. It all 
goes downhill from here, and I was so close...

Attempt a) downloading the source: I hate this. I've never been able to 
make things like this work on my fedora core3. So I download the code, 
and do a
./configure
in the code dir. It fails somewhere around the GTK+.

Attempt b) installing packages: I can't find any for fedora core 3. So I 
install the wxPython common and wxPython runtime for fedora core2 (see 
http://wxpython.org/download.php). the command
./samples/minimal/minimal.py
still returns the same error, so obviously things have not worked out.

Attempt c) second attempt to compile
I read the
http://wxpython.org/BUILD.html
that describes how to build from the code, and try again with

./configure --with-gtk --with-opengl --enable-debug --enable-geometry 
--enable-sound --with-sdl --enable-display

however this still gives the same error.
I check my package manager (synaptic) and install some GTK+ development 
packages that were not installed yet.
Then I try to run
  gtk-config --libs
(a suggestion from the failing ./configure error output) but this 
doesn't work.
Hope conquers experience, and I try to compile again. You never know.

./configure --with-gtk --with-opengl --enable-debug --enable-geometry 
--enable-sound --with-sdl --enable-display

Amazingly, it seems to work.

------------------------- last output -----------------------
Configured wxWidgets 2.5.3 for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'

   Which GUI toolkit should wxWidgets use?                 GTK+ 2
   Should wxWidgets be compiled into single library?       no
   Should wxWidgets be compiled in debug mode?             yes
   Should wxWidgets be linked as a shared library?         yes
   Should wxWidgets be compiled in Unicode mode?           no
   What level of wxWidgets compatibility should be enabled?
                                        wxWidgets 2.2      no
                                        wxWidgets 2.4      yes
   Which libraries should wxWidgets use?
                                        jpeg               builtin
                                        png                builtin
                                        regex              sys
                                        tiff               builtin
                                        zlib               sys
                                        odbc               no
                                        expat              sys
                                        libmspack          no
                                        sdl                yes
------------------------- end output -------------------------

So I type

make

This did not produce any errors, so I now type

make install

This also succeeds but trying to run the sample STILL gives the same 
error. Perhaps I need to give some parameters for the make or make 
install commands?

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