Installation of PyGTK in Python on Linux
Follow the below steps, to install PyGTK in Python on Linux Operating System.
Step 1: Let’s start by installing Python. To do so, run the following command in your terminal
sudo apt install python3
Step 2: Now, run the following command to install the PIP package manager which we will use to install the PyGTK module.
sudo apt install python3-pip
Step 3: Now, PyGTK is accessed through the PyGObject package. So, if we install the PyGObject package, we will have access to the entire GObject-based libraries, which include GTK. To Install PyGObject, GTK, let’s, and other required dependencies, run the following command.
sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0
That’s it, now let’s verify if we are able to access GTK in python.
How to Install PyGTK in Python on Linux?
PyGTK module allows GUI development using Python. It is an open-source and cross-platform library that provides an interface to the GIMP toolkit (GTK) in python. It is accessed through the PyGObject package which provides bindings for GObject-based libraries like GTK. Note that in python3, PyGTK and GTK are the same things. It is a great alternative to the Tkinter module which comes bundled with python. It provides a lot of tools and elements for constructing a GUI. You can install it on Linux, Mac, or Windows. In this article, we will see how to install PyGTK on Linux.