[pygtk] Can't install PyGTK using all-in-one windows installer

Lionel Keene lionel at gps.caltech.edu
Thu Feb 19 08:25:56 WST 2009


Hello all, I'm having a terrible time trying to get PyGTK working on my 
system here.

I've got Python 2.5.4 with SciPy/matplotlib installed as well. The first 
time I tried installing PyGTK (using the all-in-one installation package 
on the PyGTK homepage) the installation seemed to go fine. Since I 
already have Python 2.5.4 installed, I unchecked the "Python runtime" in 
the list of modules and installed everything into their default locations.

I then copied the "base.py" example from the tutorials page and when I 
tried invoking it from the command line I got:

"This application has failed to start because libglib-2.0-0.dll was not 
found."

Thinking something had gone wrong during the install, I re-installed my 
Python environment (without PyGTK), checked it to make sure everything 
was fine, and then re-installed PyGTK after uninstalling it first. Now, 
when I try to run "base.py" I get:

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found".

Here is my sys.path:

IDLE 1.2.4
 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.path
['C:\\Python25\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip', 
'C:\\Python25\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python25\\lib', 
'C:\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk', 
'C:\\Python25', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages', 
'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\gtk-2.0']
 >>>

MSVCR80.dll is present on my machine but not in any Python or PyGTK 
directory. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Thanks in advance!


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