gEDA-user: Installation problem wxGtk

[Patrick Doyle]

On 8/2/06, mailing at scastagnoli.info <mailing at scastagnoli.info> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> I've downloaded the ISO from gEDA official site and started installer
> --log from CD-ROM but it says I need wxGtk.
> I've tried
> rpm -qa | grep wx
> and I can see that wxGTK 2.6 is present on my SuSE 10.1.
> If I try to install wxGtk as installation process says it stops and I
> cannot understand wyh.
> The log file fiures out as the following:
>
> ...
>
> Preparing to install wxGTK. . . .
>
> Now start process of building and installing guile-gtk.
>
> I need root in order to execute this command.
>
>
>     ---  Starting expect session  ---
> Sending su
> Timeout waiting for password prompt
> Spew received up to now: ciccio:/media/CDROM #
>
> ...
>
> Can someone help me?
Stuart is the best person to help you.  (He's the one who created the
.iso), but, in the mean time, I can tell you what I found...

I found that the installer looks for wx-config (or something like
that) and that wx-config is not installed as part of any of the RPM's
available for FC5.  I too tried installing wxGTK from RPM and found
that I still couldn't install.  So I uninstalled the RPM and just let
the installer install it's own version of wxGTK, and that worked.

--wpd