Installing PyGtk in virtualenv

Question

The trick is to manually set the correct paths and then run configure inside the virtualenv. This is quite basic, but it worked for me.

Install python-config in the virtual env and link it to python2.7-config:

pip install config
ln -s /home/PATH/TO/VIRT/bin/python-config /home/PATH/TO/VIRT/bin/python2.7-config

Install cairo in the virtual env:

wget http://cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
tar -xf py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
cd py2cairo-1.10.0
./waf configure --prefix=/home/PATH/TO/VIRT/
./waf build
./waf install

Install PyGTK

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PyGTK/pygtk-2.24.0.tar.bz2
tar -xf pygtk-2.24.0.tar.bz2
cd pygtk-2.24.0
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/PATH/TO/VIRT/lib/pkgconfig
./configure --prefix=/home/PATH/TO/VIRT/
make 
make install

And that should do it. Just replace PATH/TO/VIRT/ with your own path. I’m sure someone could assist on adding the path to virtualenvwrapper?

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