Installation using the Package Manager

Padre is not available in stable releases of Debian. However, it is available in the unstable branch of Debian.

Add an "Unstable" source to /etc/apt/sources.list as follows:

deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Then update:

# apt-get update

And now - install:

# apt-get install padre

Installation from CPAN

The key is to uninstall all wxwidgets and wxperl related packages, and to install enough of the -dev packages to allow Alien::wxWidgets to build version 2.8.8. Once that works, cpan install Wx and from there Padre should install -- see the Subversion install instructions? for more.