glassfish updatetool error on ubuntu (python script error importing wx)

Question

I've installed glassfish and now I wont to download the java ee tutorial, but can't run updatetool. I'm using ubuntu 13.10 64bit. This is the error.

WX import error.  Verify the WX widgets are in the PYTHONPATH.
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/opt/glassfish/updatetool/vendor-packages/updatetool/common/boot.py",
line 283, in init_app_locale
import wx
File "wx/__init__.py", line 45, in ?
File "wx/_core.py", line 4, in ?
ImportError: libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: file does not exist

Already tried this Glassfish updatetool linux 64 bit issue

Tried to install ia32_libs, but as it is not available I installed lib32bz2-1.0 instead (it is reported as a substitute by apt-get). Installed some other packages suggested somewhere else too, but no success.

Packages python-wxgtk2.8 and libpangoxft-1.0-0 are already installed. PYTHONPATH is empty, don't know what it should contain.

Answer 1

When You say ' libpangoxft-1.0-0 ' is already installed - did You make sure to install the 32-bit version ?

If You want to select the 32-bit version of a library in a 64-bit system, You append the suffix 'i386' . When I ran into the same problem, I followed the answer to roughly the same question and, additionally, had to further install lib 'libXxf86vm1:i386' in order to get it working. In one line, that is

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 libjpeg62:i386 libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386 libpangox-1.0-0:i386 libsm6:i386 libidn11:i386 libXxf86vm1:i386