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diff --git a/build-unix.txt b/build-unix.txt
index f1a72eaacc..5e3f574afb 100644
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+++ b/build-unix.txt
@@ -20,15 +20,11 @@ sudo apt-get install libdb4.7-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb4.7++-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev
-The release was built with wxWidgets 2.8.9 ansi on 32-bit. The current
-sourcecode can be built on 64-bit with wxWidgets 2.9.0.
+We're now using wxWidgets 2.9, which uses UTF-8.
-There is currently no libwxgtk2.8-ansi-dev debian package for Karmic.
-libwxgtk2.8-dev is the "unicode" build, but for wxWidgets 2.8 "unicode"
-means wchar, not UTF-8. wchar wxString doesn't convert to std::string.
-We haven't been able to compile the 2.8 versions on 64-bit.
-
-wxWidgets 2.9 is UTF-8 and compiles on 64-bit.
+There isn't currently a debian package of wxWidgets we can use. The 2.8
+packages for Karmic are UTF-16 unicode and won't work for us, and we've had
+trouble building 2.8 on 64-bit.
You need to download wxWidgets from http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
and build it yourself. See the build instructions and configure parameters
@@ -42,9 +38,9 @@ Boost MIT-like license
Versions used in this release:
GCC 4.3.3
OpenSSL 0.9.8k
-wxWidgets 2.8.9
+wxWidgets 2.9.0
Berkeley DB 4.7.25.NC
-Boost 1.40.0
+Boost 1.38.0
Notes
@@ -59,7 +55,9 @@ symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
wxWidgets
---------
-cd /usr/local/wxWidgets-2.8.9 or 2.9.0
+cd /usr/local
+tar -xzvf wxWidgets-2.9.0.tar.gz
+cd /usr/local/wxWidgets-2.9.0
mkdir buildgtk
cd buildgtk
../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug --disable-shared --enable-monolithic
@@ -72,7 +70,7 @@ ldconfig
Boost
-----
If you want to build Boost yourself,
-cd /usr/local/boost_1_40_0
+cd /usr/local/boost_1_42_0
su
./bootstrap.sh
./bjam install