Comment 13 for bug 211553

I ran across this problem last night while trying to get my feet wet in wx. I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 and its a fresh install, I did not upgrade. Before I saw the bug on launchpad I had tried to do a re-install via apt-get, then a full un-install/install, and then trying different versions of wx that were in the repositories -- nothing had worked. Importing wxversions and then wx.select('2.8') like others have posted does fix the problem for me though.