How to install gtk in python2.7?

Question

I'm using Debian 6.04 and Python 2.7
I compiled Python 2.7 ,(./configure,make,make install)
in the console:

>python2.7  
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 28 2012, 16:54:06) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gtk

How do I install gtk in Python 2.7?

In Python 2.6:

tiger@debian:~$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gtk
>>> import pygtk
>>> import gobject

Answer 1

Try installing it using pip/python-pip/easy_install. On Fedora I installed it like this:

sudo pip install PyGTK

Answer 2

I would normaly create a virtualenv based on python 2.7 using

$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 .

and then install your package inside the virtualenv.

However, pygtk is an awkward exception: it can only be install through PyPI on a Windows platform, because some of its dependencies (for the Posix version) are not available of PyPI.

On Debian, install the PyGTK package system-wide with

$ sudo pip install PyGTK

Answer 3

For Windows:

pip install PyGTK

For MacOS:

brew install pygtk

• note that this works out of the box with the brew-installed python2 (for me, that's in /usr/local/Cellar/python\\@2/2.7.15/bin/python2.7 ). In order to use it with python installed by other means make sure you append PYTHONPATH.

For Ubuntu: (to work with the system-installed python2)

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2-dev

Conda:

conda install -c ostrokach gtk

• if you have python2 running in a conda environment.