I had similar problems a couple years back when I was trying to run the most up-to-date version of Padre on Mac OS X. I made this post about it Getting a working Padre and Wx on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) with Perl 5.14.0. Basically, I resorted to compiling a threaded 32-bit perl with perlbrew, and then installed Alien::wxWidgets, Wx, and finally Padre. I would hope that a similar approach would work on Linux.

UPDATE: I seem to recall that wx 2.8 did not play nice with 64-bit, and that 2.9 was required for 64-bit. So, you may be able to stay completely 64-bit if you install the most recent version of wxWidgets with the Alien::wxWidgets module (i.e. 2.9 or later, I believe the most current is 2.9.4).

In reply to Re^3: Unable to install Wx by kevbot
in thread Unable to install Wx by Specus

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