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Can I upgrade wxWidgets from 2.8.12 to 2.9.5 by simply upgrading Alien::wxWidgets? Can Alien::wxWidgets::Utility be used to upgrade wxWidgets from 2.8.12 to 2.9.5?

No and No. Alien-wxWidgets is used to install many different versions of wxWidgets, 2.8.12 with different build options (+/-unicode, ... )

Later you reinstall Wx and you build it against a specific Alien-wxWidgets configuration, like 2.9.5, and that is how you get Wx with a specific version

If you installed something else like Wx::Scintilla , that requires compilation like Wx, depends on Wx, you'll need to recompile/reinstall that too

You don't want to bother with this, its just busy work, install citursperl, or install from ppm (if you can)

Can the Citrus Perl installation/distribution manager utility, be used with Strawberry Perl/DWIM Perl?

Yes. Citrusperl is a zipfile, you unzip it, you run relocateperl or citrusutils, and thats it. Then you call citrusvars.bat to make it first perl in path, or citrusterm.bat to start a new cmd.exe window with citrusperl first in path, or just call perl.exe directly

read http://www.citrusperl.com/helpweb/installingcitrusperl.htm

read http://www.citrusperl.com/helpweb/manageinstallation.htm

start citrusutils and install the Wx 2.9.x Development Release Bundle, it will remove the 2.8.x install

when you're finished with your program read http://www.citrusperl.com/helpweb/createdistribution.htm

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Re^2: How to upgrade wxWidgets to 2.9.5 in the most painless and safe way?
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 27, 2013 at 11:19 UTC
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      Thank you, AM.

      Now (sorry if these are newbie questions) I am using cpanp. So first I go: -u  Alien::wxWidgets.

      Then: a. How do I tell cpanp to look first in http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repo29?

      b. That's a "PPM" repository. Can cpanp simply use it to download a new installation of Alien::wxWidgets?

      Many TIA - Helen

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        Now (sorry if these are newbie questions)

        and here I thought you'd done some of these steps before ... you never give cpanp a ppm repository, cpanp doesn't speak ppm

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Re^2: How to upgrade wxWidgets to 2.9.5 in the most painless and safe way?
by HelenCr (Monk) on Apr 27, 2013 at 14:40 UTC

    Thank you, AM

    Just to make it clear:

    start citrusutils and install the Wx 2.9.x Development Release Bundle, it will remove the 2.8.x install
    Can I use citrusutils to install the "Wx 2.9.x Development Release Bundle" with my current StrawberryPerl installation? or must I install a new complete CitrusPerl installation anyway?

    Many TIa - Helen

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      install citrusperl to get citrusperl, it won't interfere with your other perls
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