ImportError: No module named gi.repository Mac OS X

python gtk pygtk homebrew
MKT picture MKT · Aug 8, 2013 · Viewed 20.3k times · Source

I am installing virt-manager0.10.0 on Mac OS X

First I installed python,libvirt, gtk+3, pygtk, and other dependencies with homebrew

But when I run virt-manager I got this error

from gi.repository import GObject
ImportError: No module named gi.repository

When I run this import in python command line I get same error.but there is no error when I try import gtk

I think the problem is the homebrew pygtk version doesn't use gtk+3 and uses gtk2 and as we can see here gi.repository Windows only gtk+3 use that syntax.

Answer

kikap picture kikap · Oct 18, 2015

The gi module is in the pygobject package but if you install this package on OS/X, you won't get the gi module. To really install gi on OS/X you need to install pygobject3 module which may look like it's for Python3 but it's not, the 3 comes from GTK version. So if you're on the OS/X, the simple brew install pygobject3 will do the trick.

Related questions

"WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified" is not resolving

I have created exe file of my python project by py2exe which have number of files. when i run this exe file in my system. it works fine but if i put it in another system then it opens …

Read More
Creating GUI with Python in Linux

Quick question. I'm using Linux and I want to try making a GUI with Python. I've heard about something like Qt, GTK+ and PyGTK but I don't know what they are exactly and what the difference between them is. Is …

Read More
How can I change the font size in GTK?

Is there an easy way to change the font size of text elements in GTK? Right now the best I can do is do set_markup on a label, with something silly like: lbl.set_markup("<span font_desc=…

Read More