[pygtk] Installing pygtk on OS X

Steve Langer stephen.langer at nist.gov
Sat Aug 13 02:58:54 WST 2005


On Aug 12, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Jared Dziedzic wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I'm having a lot of issues installing pygtk on OS X (10.3).  I was 
> wondering how everyone else installed it.  Fink ends up messing up 
> python by installing two versions (regular python for Mac, then python 
> on X11).  Installing from source gives me and endless loop of 
> dependencies (glib, gtk, pkg-config, and the list seems to go on).  
> How would everyone here suggest installing it?  Allow Fink to install 
> it, or just keep compiling packages (or is there a nice OS X package I 
> just haven't found yet)?

I built pygtk2 by hand, but installed all of its dependencies from 
fink.  I don't remember exactly what went wrong when I tried to install 
pygtk2 from fink.

  -- Steve

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