CodeBlocks 10.05 on Mepis Linux 8.5

[Magnus Johansson]

I tried to install CodeBlocks 10.05 on Mepis Linux 8.5 but got stuck at a dependency on the file libwxbase. The version of this file in the Mepis repository seems to be too old. Where can I get the required one, preferably in DEB format?

[kencamargo]

I tried to install CodeBlocks 10.05 on Mepis Linux 8.5 but got stuck at a dependency on the file libwxbase. The version of this file in the Mepis repository seems to be too old. Where can I get the required one, preferably in DEB format?

apt.wxwidgets.org

HTH,
Ken

[Magnus Johansson]

Thanks, Ken. I downloaded the file from apt.wxwidgets.org but then new dependency problems arose; I downloaded some more files, got new errors (Breaks existing package) and found myself stuck again. When I installed CodeBlocks 8.05 on my old Mepis Linux 8.0 I didn't encounter any difficulties at all.

[kencamargo]

Thanks, Ken. I downloaded the file from apt.wxwidgets.org but then new dependency problems arose; I downloaded some more files, got new errors (Breaks existing package) and found myself stuck again. When I installed CodeBlocks 8.05 on my old Mepis Linux 8.0 I didn't encounter any difficulties at all.

I'm not familiar with the distro you are using, but it could be that it hasn't been adequately updated itself. The alternative would be getting the wxwidgets source code and running ./configure and make on it...

Ken

[Magnus Johansson]

I have now reloaded the package information in Synaptic and upgraded the proposed packages. In Synaptic I see libxwbase 2.8.11.0-0 and the other files needed for CodeBlocks marked with the green square but all of them have 0 Byte in the column Download. This seems to be normal though, because other program packages, e.g. Wine, that I have downloaded from other places than the Mepis repository also have 0 Bytes in Synaptic. So the problem now, I believe, is not that the computer misses files like new enough versions of libxwbase, but that the installation of the CodeBlocks DEB packages breaks one another when trying to install them with the help of Synaptic. Maybe I should install an RPM-based distribution alongside Mepis Linux and try installing CodeBlocks with an RPM package. What do you think?

[kencamargo]

I have now reloaded the package information in Synaptic and upgraded the proposed packages. In Synaptic I see libxwbase 2.8.11.0-0 and the other files needed for CodeBlocks marked with the green square but all of them have 0 Byte in the column Download. This seems to be normal though, because other program packages, e.g. Wine, that I have downloaded from other places than the Mepis repository also have 0 Bytes in Synaptic. So the problem now, I believe, is not that the computer misses files like new enough versions of libxwbase, but that the installation of the CodeBlocks DEB packages breaks one another when trying to install them with the help of Synaptic. Maybe I should install an RPM-based distribution alongside Mepis Linux and try installing CodeBlocks with an RPM package. What do you think?

I don't think this is a good idea; this will probably cause you even more headache. Try uninstalling all the codeblocks files, and adding Jens' repository to your sources, then try to install codeblocks again. You may have a codeblocks build that is not binary compatible with the official distro, but all that the .deb package flags is the version...

Ken

[Magnus Johansson]

Thanks a lot for your advice, Ken, but I gave up on 10.05 and installed 8.02 instead which did not cause me any trouble. Before that, I did however install Fedora alongside my other operating systems, but like you anticipated, it messed things up a bit when it deleted the GRUB of Mepis so I could not start any operating system but Fedora. I then deleted the Fedora installation and replaced it with Kubuntu (and its GRUB which recognized every system I had on the hard drive) and was then able to access Mepis Linux 8.5 again.