Installing the Latest wxGTK

This original version of this tutorial was copied completely from http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_Code::Blocks_nightly_build_on_Ubuntu.

To install the latest wxGTK you need to be using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), or Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and you need to add the wxWidgets repository to your sources.list.

1. Backup your current sources.list first for precaution.
   sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak
2. Open your sources.list in a text editor to edit it.
   gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
3. Add the correct repository for the Ubuntu version you are running to the end of the file.
   deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ dapper-wx main
   or
   deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ edgy-wx main
   or
   deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ feisty-wx main
   or
   deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ gutsy-wx main
4. Save and close the file.
5. Add the key for tt-solutions.com.
   

    wget http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc
   
    sudo apt-key add key.asc 
6. Update your sources.list and run upgrade to make sure everything is up-to-date.
   

    sudo apt-get update
   
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 
7. Now you're finally ready to install the latest wxGTK
   sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-dev wx2.8-headers wx-common
8. Set wxWidgets 2.8 as default version for your machine. Select number for the wxgtk2.8 version.
   sudo update-alternatives --config wx-config