How to install wxPython 2.8 (for Python 2.6) on Ubuntu

Copy and paste to the console the following lines:

sudo curl http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo # wxWidgets/wxPython repo at apt.wxwidgets.org | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ jaunty-wx main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ jaunty-wx main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxtools wx2.8-i18n

2 Responses to How to install wxPython 2.8 (for Python 2.6) on Ubuntu

  1. Kamal says:
    December 7, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    The following are not working on ubuntu 10.10
    sudo echo deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ jaunty-wx main >> /etc/apt/sources.list
    sudo echo deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ jaunty-wx main >> /etc/apt/sources.list

    error:
    -bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: Permission denied

    permissions:
    ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list
    -rw-r–r– 1 root root 3249 2010-12-06 15:12 /etc/apt/sources.list