[GRASS-user] wxGCDC not available on this platform

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>  I've not before seen this error: wxGCDC not available on this platform
> (Slackware-13.1).
>
>  It displays in both 6.4svn and 6.5svn.
>
>  I have wxPython-2.8.11.0 and wxGTK-2.8.11 installed. Do I need to install
> wxWidgets-2.9.1, too? This was not an issue when I last worked with GRASS,
> about a year ago. And now I need to quickly get back up to speed.

I had this problem once:

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> after upgrade to Mandriva 2009.1 (64bit) and recompilation of 6.5
>>> without problems, I cannot start the wxGUI:
> ...
>>> line 6013, in __init__
>>>    _gdi_.GCDC_swiginit(self,_gdi_.new_GCDC(*args))
>>> NotImplementedError: wxGCDC is not available on this platform.
>>
>>
>> Solution:
>> recompile wxPythonGTK-2.8.9.2 with '--enable-graphics_ctx' in the SPEC file
>> for configure. Filed upstream as https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51272
>
> Cool, Mandriva propagated today the updated package through the update channel.
>
> Markus
>

I suspect that the same happened on Slackware?

Markus