To answer EVERYONE'S installation questions...

I noticed that about half of the questions in this forum are about installation problems in UNIX/Linux. Does anyone know any good simple-to-in-depth tutorials for learning to "build" and "install" packages in UNIX/linux? I have lived in a house plagued/spoiled by Windows and it's automated installers. I, like many others in this part of the website, need to learn to manually install items and packages. I have started using Ubuntu, but can only download software and programs that have automated installation within Ubuntu. This really limits my resources, so please help! I have really been trying to install wxPython... if anyone could help with that.

re: To answer EVERYONE'S installation questions...

Well, to install wxPython under Ubuntu, you can just use That is in the universe repository, so run and make sure universe is activated. You can also activate multiverse and restricted if you want to. That way, you'll have more software, that you can install.
Also, while you're at it, you can choose the best server for your location by choosing "Other" from the server list and then click on "Choose best server" (or similar).

But of course, that doesn't answer your original question. I'll have to look it up myself, to be quite honest, but I'm sure, together we'll figure it out.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

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Thanks for the wxPython help. I've been studying wxPy for some time on Windows now, and really wanted to make it work in Ubuntu. There are things you can make in linux that cannot be made in Windows... it is much easier to design a GUI with a floating dock bar in llinux, for example. And it's kind of like writing HTML... you want to see how it works on many Operating Systems. As far as a tutorial, I did find something here. This is a linux tutorial about the shell and how to effectively use it. I figured learning this would stop a lot of my own questions.

re: To answer EVERYONE'S installation questions...

Just to be sure. Installations are different between Linux distros and none of those are the same as Unix/BSD.

re: To answer EVERYONE'S installation questions...

yea, true true .