I actually deleted both versions of wx manually (technically I moved them to a temp folder so that the system would not find them).

Now, I just tried "sudo apt-get install --reinstall libwxgtk2.8-dev", and it worked fine, but it still seems like RVIZ does not see it. I can no longer run or compile RVIZ. Here's the log output of "rosmake rviz":

[ 0%] Built target rospack_genmsg_libexe
[ 0%] Built target rosbuild_precompile
Scanning dependencies of target rviz
[ 1%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/rviz.dir/plugin/plugin.o
[ 2%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/rviz.dir/plugin/plugin_manager.o
[ 3%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/rviz.dir/plugin/type_registry.o

...

[ 53%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/rviz.dir/robot/robot.o
[ 54%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/rviz.dir/selection/selection_manager.o
[ 55%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/rviz.dir/generated/rviz_generated.o
Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/librviz.so
[ 55%] Built target rviz
Scanning dependencies of target executable
[ 57%] Building CXX object src/rviz/CMakeFiles/executable.dir/visualizer_app.o
Linking CXX executable ../../bin/rviz
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0, needed by /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre_tools/lib/libogre_tools.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization/wxpropgrid/propgrid_install/lib/libwxcode_gtk2u_propgrid-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxListBase::Find(wxListKey const&) const@WXU_2.8'
/opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization/wxpropgrid/propgrid_install/lib/libwxcode_gtk2u_propgrid-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxBaseArrayInt::Index(int, bool) const@WXU_2.8'
/opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization/wxpropgrid/propgrid_install/lib/libwxcode_gtk2u_propgrid-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxScrollHelper::DoPrepareDC(wxDC&)@WXU_2.8'

... [hundreds of lines here]

/opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization/wxpropgrid/propgrid_install/lib/libwxcode_gtk2u_propgrid-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxOwnerDrawnComboBox::GetEventHashTable() const@WXU_2.8'
/opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization/wxpropgrid/propgrid_install/lib/libwxcode_gtk2u_propgrid-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxButton::SetDefault()@WXU_2.8'
/opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization/wxpropgrid/propgrid_install/lib/libwxcode_gtk2u_propgrid-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxScrollHelper::GetViewStart(int*, int*) const@WXU_2.8'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [bin/rviz] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/rviz/CMakeFiles/executable.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any idea why this keeps happening? Is there a way to remove all of these libraries and let ROS re-install only what it requires? Is there a better solution?

On July 13, 2010 at 8:39 PM Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com> wrote:

> Did you delete the one in /usr, or use apt to uninstall it? If you manually
> deleted it, you'll have to force a reinstallation (sudo apt-get install
> --reinstall libwxgtk2.8-dev)
>
> Josh
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Benoit Larochelle <
> Benoit.Larochelle@dfki.de> wrote:
>
> > I think that one of the problems is that I seem to have two versions of
> > wx, one in /usr and one in /usr/local, like Josh suggested.
> >
> > I manually deleted both versions of wx and I tried to reinstall it with
> > rosdep, but it found nothing. It just told me that there were no missing
> > components, but yet when I try to compile RVIZ, it complains because it
> > can't find the wx libraries. I tried re-installing wx from scratch, but
> > the compiler still cannot find the libraries.
> >
> > By the way, I'm running Ubuntu 9.10.
> >
> > Benoit
> >