Re: Installation Cookbook

Hi James,

On 01/10/14 23:26, James Lynes wrote:
> Steve:
>
> I have a few questions/comments on your wxPerl installation script:
>
> I compared your script against the "Ubuntu LTS 12 Notes" (NOTES) on 
> the wiki.
>
> libgtk2.0-dev was called for in the NOTES, but was not used in your
> script. I assume you replaced libgtk2.0-dev with libgtk-3-dev.
>
> The following were called for in your script, but were not referenced 
> in the NOTES:
>    make,
Hmmm  ...  very good questions.
> subversion,
If you use my git repository, you don't need this, it's only for the 
formal sourceforge download (ie svn co https://svn.wxwidgets.org/ .....)
> git,
You need it for my 3.0.1 versions of code:

git clone https://github.com/SteveBz/Alien-wxWidgets

> libgconf2-dev,
I think this has always been required, I don't recall why.
>    cups-pdf,
This gives you a default pdf printer, but strictly speaking you don't 
need it.
> apparmor-utils,
I don't recall.
> ExtUtils::XSpp, XSLoader,  ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
Some of these needed to be in place for the wxPerl/Alien installs, but I 
don't remember which and why.   I think it better to install them.

> Encode,
You don't need this unless you are using unicode.
>    Test::Pod, Pod::Coverage,  Test::Pod::Coverage,
These were dependencies of something, but again I don't remember what 
(maybe the wxPdfDocument?).  You can try without.
>    mesa-common-dev,
This was for OpenGL.  If you don't want it, you can drop it, but then 
change the line "wxWidgets-build-opengl=1" to "wxWidgets-build-opengl=0"
> libsdl1.2-dev.
I don't remember.
>
> In the Perl Build section, it appears that the line 
> "wxWidgets-build-opengl=1"
> is duplicated.
It's an error, you can delete one of them.
> Your script has more "extraflags" than in the NOTES(--with-gtkprint 
> only). Required/useful?
The old one had --with-gnome-print --with-gnomeprintui, which  I recall 
is discontinued.  This one uses gtkprint.  You probably need it.
>
> What does the "aa-complain cupsd" line do? Required/useful?
I'm not sure, I think maybe it was a dependency for another script (uam 
installation), you can try dropping it.
> There's two cpan modules that I have used in the past. I add cpan -i 
> module::name lines to the script for these?
> I.E. cpan -i Device::SerialPort::Arduino and cpan -i GDGraph-1.48.
Please do, it's perfectly safe.
>
> Thank you for providing your script!
>
You are very welcome.

Regards

Steve.