I am batteling with this Can some please guide me in this. I have to install wxWidgets on linux mint 18.3. I download the latest version in a tar bz2 file. How about installing it from here on. Please Help????

did you try the official documentation already?
did you try to look for a guide on the net?

https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Compiling...etting_started
https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?t=44146
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-wxw...4-derivatives/

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For Linux Mint 18.x, it is useful to bear in mind that it is based on Ubuntu 16.04 and thus any online tutorials or instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 will almost always apply to it. Among the pages returned by an internet search for "install wxwidgets ubuntu 16.04" is:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/7464...n-of-wxwidgets

Note that Ubuntu 16.04 is xenial and this is therefore the name you should include in the repository line.

In saying that, Mint 18.3 should already contain at least a couple of wxwidgets packages so there *may* be some conflict. I would recommend that you make a system snapshot/backup/image with e.g. TimeShift so that you can roll back if things go awry.

cd into source and run ./configure if that is successful, run make and make install. If you haven't already: install gtk development libraries and build-essentials before running the other commands. Run ./configure --help for all your options.

isn't wxwidgets in the repos anyhow (*)?
there's no need to compile from source?

(*) don't have a ubuntu machine here right now, but on debian stable it certainly is.

Try running this:

And see what happens.

Just for info, you don't need Ubuntu installed to know if the repos include a certain package.

You can use this page to find out:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/

The answer (for Xenial at least) appears to be no. The only packages there that match "*wxw*" are libalien-wxwidgets-perl and plplot12-driver-wxwidgets.

To be thorough, the complete list of packages in the Mint 18.3 repo is here:

http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Sylvia

It isn't there either.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the latest development version (3.1.1) isn't available via the repo. And for a developer there is many reasons to build 3.1.1.

Or what if he wants to build wxX11, wxDFB, or wxQt? Or if he wants a static build? Of course op didn't specify anything other than installing.

I always build my own wxWidgets on all my platforms, it can coexist beside an package manager installed version.

edit: @hydrurga it should be called wxGtk?

Aha. Thanks. In that case, it appears to be there. I'll put my head back into its shell.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?k...al&section=all

@OP: apt list *wxgtk* will show you all the relevant packages in the repos.