Ubuntu and wxpython, cannot install
Antonio Goméz Soto
I want to port my application to Ubuntu. I am not an experienced Ubuntu user,
though I do have some redhat experience.
I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu 11.10.
According to http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian
there are no wxpython packages for that version.
Do I need to compile from source now? I would rather like to build a .deb
in that case. Will my users need to do that too before installation?
Thanks for any advice.
Antonio
evstevemd
On Mar 17, 12:02 pm, Antonio Goméz Soto <antonio.gomez.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I want to port my application to Ubuntu. I am not an experienced Ubuntu user,
> though I do have some redhat experience.
>
> I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu 11.10.
>
> Do I need to compile from source now? I would rather like to build a .deb
> in that case. Will my users need to do that too before installation?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
> Antonio
The best beginners way would be install app that uses wxPython.
But using synaptic (Yes it is still my best app than USC) search
wxPython should so it!
Antonio Goméz Soto
> Hi,
>
> On Mar 17, 12:02 pm, Antonio Gom�z Soto <antonio.gomez.s...@gmail.com>
I am very sorry. I forgot to mention that I need 2.9.3 because of WebView.
After some googling I found out that 11.10 came out in october last year.
Does that mean it is too new for the wxPython own APT repository?
Should I install an older version like 11.04 and recommend that to my end users?
Will 11.04 contain the necessary WebKit version?
What if my users use an older Ubuntu, in that case should I create my
own APT repositiry where they can download the newer webkit package that is
required by 2.9.3? Or would that be too complicated?
Sorry, my users have long been waiting on browser features in our application,
so they are on my back now.
Thanks,
Antonio
Serge Stakhanov
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Igor Korot
Besides, you can make statically linked app.
Thank you.
Antonio Goméz Soto
thank you. I am now trying to compile it myself. I installed a new Ubuntu,
but I keep bumping into dependencies. I solved a few of them, but gstreamer
puzzles me. Is there a list of things wxpython depends on?
The config.log says: no gstreamer-plugins-base installed, but I do have
that on my system.
Any pointers?
Thanks,
Antonio.
Op 17-03-12 17:28, Serge Stakhanov schreef:
> Hello Antonio.
>
> Ubuntu includes stable wxWidgets packages only. 2.9.3 is development release so I am afraid you have to build 2.9.3 release yourself.
>
> 2012/3/17 Antonio Gom�z Soto <antonio.g...@gmail.com <mailto:antonio.g...@gmail.com>>
>
> Op 17-03-12 15:59, evstevemd schreef:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mar 17, 12:02 pm, Antonio Gom�z Soto <antonio.gomez.s...@gmail.com <mailto:antonio.gomez.s...@gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I want to port my application to Ubuntu. I am not an experienced Ubuntu user,
> >> though I do have some redhat experience.
> >>
> >> I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu 11.10.
> >> According tohttp://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian <http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian>
> >> there are no wxpython packages for that version.
> >>
> >> Do I need to compile from source now? I would rather like to build a .deb
> >> in that case. Will my users need to do that too before installation?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any advice.
> >> Antonio
> >
> > There is wxPython that comes with Ubuntu.
> > The best beginners way would be install app that uses wxPython.
> > But using synaptic (Yes it is still my best app than USC) search
> > wxPython should so it!
> >
>
> I am very sorry. I forgot to mention that I need 2.9.3 because of WebView.
> After some googling I found out that 11.10 came out in october last year.
> Does that mean it is too new for the wxPython own APT repository?
> Should I install an older version like 11.04 and recommend that to my end users?
> Will 11.04 contain the necessary WebKit version?
>
> What if my users use an older Ubuntu, in that case should I create my
> own APT repositiry where they can download the newer webkit package that is
> required by 2.9.3? Or would that be too complicated?
>
> Sorry, my users have long been waiting on browser features in our application,
> so they are on my back now.
>
> Thanks,
> Antonio
>
>
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Serge Stakhanov
actually totem requested and installed gstreamer itself.
But I have xubuntu 10.04 so I am not sure how totem will behave on
Ubuntu 11.10
On 17 мар, 20:58, Antonio Goméz Soto <antonio.gomez.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> thank you. I am now trying to compile it myself. I installed a new Ubuntu,
> but I keep bumping into dependencies. I solved a few of them, but gstreamer
> puzzles me. Is there a list of things wxpython depends on?
>
> The config.log says: no gstreamer-plugins-base installed, but I do have
> that on my system.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Antonio.
>
> Op 17-03-12 17:28, Serge Stakhanov schreef:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello Antonio.
>
> > Ubuntu includes stable wxWidgets packages only. 2.9.3 is development release so I am afraid you have to build 2.9.3 release yourself.
>
> > To unsubscribe, send email to wx-users+u...@googlegroups.com <mailto:wx-users%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com>
> > or visithttp://groups.google.com/group/wx-users
>
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Robin Dunn
> Hi,
> Besides, you can make statically linked app.
>
Not with Python extension modules.
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Robin Dunn
> Serge,
>
> thank you. I am now trying to compile it myself. I installed a new Ubuntu,
> but I keep bumping into dependencies. I solved a few of them, but gstreamer
> puzzles me. Is there a list of things wxpython depends on?
I think there was a list of requirements posted on the wxPython-users
list of what the poster needed to install for SuSE. It's probably a
similar list for Ubuntu, plus the libwebkitgtk-dev package.
>
> The config.log says: no gstreamer-plugins-base installed, but I do have
> that on my system.
>
Look for development packages for gconf or libgconf or something like
that. The gstreamer development packages seem to have some sort of an
implicit dependency on gconf devel as the gstreamer detection in our
configure fails if it's not installed.
Antonio Goméz Soto
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython-src-2.9.3.1.tar.bz2
$ tar xjvf wxPython-src-2.9.3.1.tar.bz2
$ cd wxPython-src-2.9.3.1/wxPython
$ ./build-wxpython.py --build_dir=../bld
This worked, I now have a compiled version. Does wxPython have a built-in
method to create a .deb package? Or is it already there somewhere?
Thanks,
Antonio
Op 17-03-12 19:37, Robin Dunn schreef:
Robin Dunn
> Everybody thanks for the suggestions. I reinstalled Ubuntu, downloaded the sources, and did the following:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
> $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
> $ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
> $ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
> $ sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
> $ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
> $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython-src-2.9.3.1.tar.bz2
> $ tar xjvf wxPython-src-2.9.3.1.tar.bz2
> $ cd wxPython-src-2.9.3.1/wxPython
> $ ./build-wxpython.py --build_dir=../bld
>
> This worked, I now have a compiled version. Does wxPython have a built-in
> method to create a .deb package? Or is it already there somewhere?
>
There is the debian folder in the root of the wxWidgets source tree that
was used in 2.8 and 2.6 to build .deb packages for both wxWidgets and
wxPython, but it has not been maintained for 2.9 as somebody in the
Ubuntu project (IIRC) said they would take over creation of the packages.
Robin Dunn
> So I followed these steps to install wxPython 2.9.3... Now that I have
> done all of this, whenever I try to use wx I get an error.
> " File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx/__init__.py", line
> 45, in <module>
> from wx._core import *
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx/_core.py", line 4, in
> <module>
> import _core_
> ImportError: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.9.so.3: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory"
>
> Any ideas what I did wrong? Thanks.
If your wxWidgets was installed to a non-standard prefix then you need
to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the lib dir in the prefix you used.
Swanzy
Robin Dunn
>
> Would it be safer to just reinstall it to a standard prefix? Or how do
> you go about setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to add another folder? Once
> again thanks.
>
You can set it in your .bashrc or .profile scripts which are run when a
new shell is started. You can also add it to /etc/ld.so.conf and then
run ldconfig as root to have it rescan the folders. Or you can set it
temporarily for just one command on the command line before running
python, like:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/myprefix/lib python someApp.py
Robin Dunn
> So I did that, but now it's just running like version 2.8 (no wx.webview
> or wx.html2), any ideas why?
Python's sys.path to see the order that directories are searched when
importing, and see where the packages that you built are located with
respect to the system wxPython package. Also if you have more than one
python installed make sure you are using the same one that was used for
the build.
Swanzy
Robin Dunn
> It finds the 2.9 version first, but do I have to remove the 2.8 one?
> (If
> so how do I do that, because I tried to do that with just a remove()
> function which didn't work)
>
> On Friday, July 13, 2012 7:57:12 PM UTC-6, Robin Dunn wrote:
>
> On 7/13/12 4:28 PM, Swanzy wrote:
> > So I did that, but now it's just running like version 2.8 (no
> wx.webview
> > or wx.html2), any ideas why?
(libwebkitgtk) does not have the -dev packages installed, or it is not a
new enough version, so that part of the build was skipped.
The wx.webview module comes from a different project (wxWebKit) and is
not installed as part of wxPython.
Swanzy
Robin Dunn
> Oh wait... really? Could you send me a link to getting the wxWebKit then?
>
Swanzy
Robin Dunn
> Lol, I did that. But I read that wx added a module call wx.webview in
> 2.9.3 which is what I was trying to figure out. But if that's not true
> oh well, and thanks.
project was already using the wx.webview name.)
So as I mentioned before it is probably a matter of not having new
enough libwebkitgtk or its -dev package installed. Take a closer look at
the output of the wxWidgets configure step, or at the config.log file to
see for sure why it wasn't able to build those classes.
Swanzy
" File "webview", line 17, in <module>
dialog = MyBrowser(None, -1)
File "webview", line 10, in __init__
self.browser = wx.html2.WebView.New(self)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.9.3-gtk2/wx/html2.py", line 125, in New
val = _html2.WebView_New(*args, **kwargs)
NotImplementedError: wx.html2 is not available on this platform."