How to install PyGObject with Python 3 support

Question

I've been trying to install PyGObject using a variety of methods. First, using apt-get but that only installs it for Python 2.x. Next I attempted to compile it myself but I have been having problems getting it to compile for Python 3.

Does anyone know how to install it?

Answer 1

First you need to install python3 and the development headers.

Then you need to tell configure to use python3:

PYTHON=python3 ./configure

Compile and install normally

make
make install

You should then be able to use pygobject from python3.