I am trying to learn GTK+3 as per this site: https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html. From the page:
1.1. Dependencies
- GTK+3
- Python 2 (2.6 or later) or Python 3 (3.1 or later)
- gobject-introspection
The easiest way to install PyGObject from source is using JHBuild. It is designed to easily build source packages and discover what dependencies need to be build and in what order. To setup JHBuild, please follow the JHBuild manual.
I followed the manual as per that link and downloaded via git JHBuild (as they say to do) and built it with make/make install. That went fine. The next step is where the problem begins.
I ran the next command I was supposed to as per the page:
2.3. Build Prerequisites
Before any modules can be built, it is necessary to have certain build tools installed. Common build tools include the GNU Autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool and gettext), The GNU Toolchain (binutils, gcc, g++), make, pkg-config and Python, depending on which modules will be built.
JHBuild can check the tools are installed using the sanitycheck command:
$ jhbuild sanitycheck
When I first ran this I got this:
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ jhbuild sanitcheck
jhbuild: install prefix (/opt/gnome) can not be created
so I began looking around for help. I looked at this question: jhbuild sanitycheck not moving, but it just told the obvious. Nonetheless, I ran the following commands and got the results below:
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ sudo chmod 777 /opt/gnome/ -R
[sudo] password for nate:
chmod: cannot access ‘/opt/gnome/’: No such file or directory
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ mkdir /opt/gnome
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/gnome’: Permission denied
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ sudo mkdir /opt/gnome
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ jhbuild sanitcheck
jhbuild: working directory (/opt/gnome/_jhbuild) can not be created
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ jhbuild sanitycheck
jhbuild: working directory (/opt/gnome/_jhbuild) can not be created
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ chmod 777 /opt/gnome/ -R
chmod: changing permissions of ‘/opt/gnome/’: Operation not permitted
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ sudo chmod 777 /opt/gnome/ -R
nate@excelion-Satellite-A105:~$ jhbuild sanitycheck
checkout root (/home/nate/checkout/gnome) is not writable
Could not find the Perl module XML::Parser
cvs not found
svn not found
flex not found
bison not found
This is really annoying as I want to learn how to make GUIs with Python and this appears to be the best current option (BTW...if anyone has any input on that feel fine to comment)
Does anyone know what the problem is with the installation?
Thanks!
