Recent release history:

Padre version	from SVN revision
v0.18	r1247
v0.17	r1034
v0.16	r858
v0.15	r665

See also ​http://svn.perlide.org/padre/trunk/Changes

CPAN

Normally you could just install it as any other Perl module using the CPAN or CPANPLUS shell.

  $ cpan
  cpan> install Padre

You can try that or see further details here:

Binary

Linux in general

There is an experimental executable for Linux that can be downloaded from ​http://www.perlide.org/download/ it has an initial warning popup but then it seems to work.

Ubuntu

This are the steps to install Ubuntu Hardy packages (originally published in ​PerlMonks):

1. Add these sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alex.muntada/ubuntu hardy main
   deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/alex.muntada/ubuntu hardy main
   

2. Optionally, add package author's GPG signature into APT:

   $ wget 'http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2DDC42192DF36811' -O- | sudo apt-key add -
   

3. Update APT:

   sudo apt-get update
   

4. Install Padre:

   sudo apt-get install libpadre-perl
   

Wx is to be in the Intrepid (8.10 ?) release of Ubuntu: ​http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libwx-perl

Mandriva

Mandriva 2009.0 comes with pre-packaged Padre 0.10. New releases of Padre are quickly backported.

Fedora

Fedora 10 is going to include Padre. Currently they have v0.10 packaged.

​https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/perl-Padre

Windows

There is an experimental beta Portable Strawberry Perl with Padre 0.14 in it:

you can download it from here: ​http://www.perlide.org/download/ Once you unzip the file you can then double click on DIR\perl\bin\portablepadre.bat and it should work.

You might need to make sure the PATH does not contain any other perl installation.

Source code

Padre is released as a CPAN package. You can download and install it using CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS. The released versions can be seen here ​http://search.cpan.org/dist/Padre/ and here ​http://kobesearch.cpan.org/dist/Padre.

As Padre has many dependencies probably the easies is, to install the binary distribution where available from the distributions (Mandriva, Fedora) and then use CPAN.pm to upgrade.

If this is not possible read on:

The difficult part will be to install some of the prerequisites:

• Installing wxWidgets (that ​Alien::wxWidgets tries to solved)
• Installing wxPerl (the ​Wx distro) from CPAN.

Mattia Barbon did a great job with them but they are still difficult to install. Any help with this would be welcome. See the ​wxPerl web site and mailing list.

Additional help can be provided by:

1. Describing the results you have on various operating systems
2. Asking the various downstream distributors to include Padre
3. Creating a stand-alone version using PAR

Help in any of those is appreciated. Please post links to any conversation you might have with the distro maintainers so others can follow up.

MS Windows

Strawberry Perl

Download Strawberry Perl from here: ​http://www.strawberryperl.com/

On Strawberry Perl 5.10, starting from version 5.10.0.3 you can install Padre by starting the CPAN shell and typing

  cpan> install Padre

On previous releases of Strawberry Perl 5.10 you can install it following these steps

  cpan> look Alien::wxWidgets
  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ dmake
  $ dmake test
  $ dmake install
  $ exit
  cpan> look Wx
  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ dmake
  $ dmake test
  $ dmake install
  $ exit
  cpan> install Padre

Once it is installed you can start Padre either by

Start/Run and type in padre

or by creating a shortcut and then clicking on it.

When creating the shortcut use the following as command:

C:\strawberry\perl\bin\wperl.exe C:\strawberry\perl\bin\padre

note we are using wperl here instead of perl in order to avoid the extra command shell window.

Active Perl

​http://www.activestate.com/

For Active Perl there are prebuilt PPM versions of Alien::wxWidgets and Wx (aka. wxPerl) and can be installed from ​http://wxperl.co.uk/

Actually you should install as many of the dependencies of Padre as you can using ppm. then open the cpan client and

  cpan> install Padre

Oren Maurer reported that you might need to force it:

  cpan> force install Padre

at some point you might encounter an error like this:

 Running install for module 'Padre'
 Running make for S/SZ/SZABGAB/Padre-0.06.tar.gz
 CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.45)
 Fetching with LWP:
  http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/SZ/SZABGAB/CHECKSUMS
 Alert: While trying to 'parse' YAML file
  'D:\ActiveState\Perl\cpan\FTPstats.yml'
 with 'YAML::XS' the following error was encountered:
  Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_str) at
 D:\ActiveState\Perl\lib/YAML/XS.pm
  line 70.

The reported solution was this:

  [reach the cpan shell:]
  C:\>cpan
  cpan> o conf yaml_module ''
  cpan> o conf commit
  commit: wrote 'C:\Perl\lib/CPAN/Config.pm'
  cpan> q

(See: ​http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/3a347d02a1ebf464 and ​http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2008-September/009779.html )

Debian

The next Debian release will have wxPerl in it, albeit with an old version of wxWidgets

Ubuntu

Installation of Alien::wxWidgets fails, because configure can't find gtk.h. Simply do:

apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-0

and then proceed to "install Wx" with CPAN, and everything should be fine.

Fedora

Fedora has wxPerl since at least FC8

• ​http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-perl-devel-list/2008-July/msg00311.html
• ​http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-perl-devel-list/2008-August/msg00000.html

Fedora 8 has

• wxGTK-2.8.7
• perl-Wx-0.74
• perl-Alien-wxWidgets-0.31

This should be sufficient:

# rpm -ivh  perl-Wx perl-Alien-wxWidgets

Fedora 9 has

• wxGTK-2.8.7
• perl-Wx-0.81
• perl-Alien-wxWidgets-0.32

This should be sufficient:

# rpm -ivh  perl-Wx perl-Alien-wxWidgets

Mandriva/Mandrake?

Mandriva 2008.1

has these:

• perl-Alien-wxWidgets Version: 0.33-2mdv2008.1
• perl-Wx Version: 0.81-1mdv2008.1

To install Padre follow these:

$ urpmi perl-Alien-wxWidgets
$ urpmi perl-Wx
$ cpan
cpan> install Padre

FreeBSD

​http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-perl

​http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-perl/2008-August/001928.html

Open Suse

On the wish list: ​http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Development#P

​https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:jnweiger:perl

Suse

​http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2008/08/msg6056.html

Gentoo

Has Wx version 0.82

​http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2008/07/msg5993.html

   g-cpan -i Padre

should work but you need a threaded perl. If you have trouble installing please file a bug here or on ​http://bugs.gentoo.org depending where do you think the problem is.

More detailed instructions:

1. Make sure your perl is compiled with USE="ithreads" ( generally in /etc/make.conf ) and emerge perl
2. If you don't have g-cpan installed, emerge app-portage/g-cpan
3. g-cpan -i Padre

OSX

OS X 10.4 has wxPerl 0.22, 10.5 has a more recent version (0.6x for some x)

see this thread ​http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2008/07/msg5978.html

wxWidgets and wxPerl

​wxPerl on Linux distributions