Error while installing Trelby on Ubuntu 16.10

Question

I'm trying to install Trelby on my Ubuntu 16.10, but I'm getting a dependency error for Python. How do i get past this error?

Answer 1

Short answer:

Do the following:

1. sudo apt-get -f install
2. sudo apt-get install libc6 libgcc1 libstdc++6 python python-wxversion
3. Download and manually install (using sudo dpkg -i <package-name>.deb) the following in the exact order:
   • libpng12-0
   • libgstreamer0.10-0
   • libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
   • libwxbase2.8-0
   • libwxgtk2.8-0
   • libwxgtk-media2.8-0
   • python-wxgtk2.8
4. And finally install Trelby.

Long answer:

Trelby depends on the package python-wxgtk2.8 that is not present in Ubuntu 16.10 repository. You can download python-wxgtk2.8 package from here Don't install it now. Package python-wxgtk2.8 depends on:

libc6 libgcc1 libstdc++6 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk-media2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 python python-wxversion

But these three are not available in Ubuntu 16.10 repository :

libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk-media2.8-0

Unfortunately, libwxgtk-media2.8-0 depends on:

libpng12-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0

and these too were removed from 16.10 's repo.

Search and download the above packages from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ OR simply google with package-name followed by "ubuntu package"

So to solve your issue, first install all dependencies of pyhton-wxgtk2.8 and then install trelby.