How do I install python3-gi within virtualenv?
Solution 1
It is now possible to resolve this using vext. Vext allows you to install packages in a virtualenv that individually access your system packages. To access gi
, do the following:
pip install vext
pip install vext.gi
Solution 2
Update 2018 – Debian Stretch
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Install GTK+ 3 / GIR.
apt install libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev gir1.2-gtk-3.0
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Create a virtual environment.
python3 -mvenv venv
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Install
pygobject
(pycairo
should come as a dependency).venv/bin/pip install pygobject
Update 2018 – macOS
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Install GTK+ 3 and Gobject Introspection with Homebrew.
brew install gtk+3 gobject-introspection
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Create and activate a virtual environment.
python3 -mvenv venv
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Install
pygobject
(pycairo
should come as a dependency).PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" venv/bin/pip install pygobject
Original answer
This is what I did to get GTK+ 3 within a Python 3.5 virtual environment on OS X 10.11.
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Install GTK+ 3 with Homebrew.
brew install gtk+3
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Create and activate a virtual environment.
pyvenv-3.5 venv source venv/bin/activate cd venv
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Install pycairo on the virtual environment.
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/pkgconfig curl -L https://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2 | tar xj cd pycairo-1.10.0 export ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86_64' python waf configure --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV # It's ok, this will fail. sed -i '' '154s/data={}/return/' .waf3-1.6.4-*/waflib/Build.py # Bugfix: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76759 python waf configure --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV # Now it should configure. python waf build python waf install unset ARCHFLAGS cd ..
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Install pygobject on the virtual environment.
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig curl -L http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygobject/3.12/pygobject-3.12.2.tar.xz | tar xJ cd pygobject-3.12.2 ./configure CFLAGS="-I$VIRTUAL_ENV/include" --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV make make install cd ..
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Profit.
Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 5 2015, 21:12:44) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, Pango, GObject >>> from cairo import ImageSurface, Context, FORMAT_ARGB32 >>>
Python 3.5 downloaded and installed from PSF.
Solution 3
I haven't found a proper solution to this. When I run into situations where I can't get something to install into a virtualenv directly, I symlink it there and it works fine (there are probably exceptions, but this is not one of them).
ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi /path_to_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/
Not elegant in the slightest; seems nicer than giving the virtualenv full access to all system packages though (via --system-site-packages
).
Solution 4
The pip package name is somewhat counterintuitive - use pip install PyGObject
.
Solution 5
I installed pgi
via pip
, which may be an option. It is apparently API compatibly with PyGObject
and so far seems to work ok running Gtk
.
Nicholas Kolatsis
Updated on July 11, 2020Comments
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Nicholas Kolatsis almost 4 years
I'm following the Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial and I'm trying to get a working install running in virtualenv. I have python3-gi installed through the Ubuntu package manager already. Things look like this:
:~$ mkvirtualenv py3 --python=/usr/bin/python3 Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3 Using base prefix '/usr' New python executable in py3/bin/python3 Also creating executable in py3/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip...python done. (py3):~$ python Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gi Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named 'gi' >>> (py3):~$ deactivate :~$ /usr/bin/python3 Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gi >>>
As you can see, python3-gi is obviously not available within virtualenv but I am not sure how to install it since python3-gi is installed through my package manager and not with pip.