problems on installing PyGTK in Windows XP

[Yang]

Python 2.6.3 is installed on my Windows XP throught the binary file
provided by Python.org. Then I followed the steps described here:

http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=show&file=faq21.001.htp

to install PyGTK. However, I still get the following error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gtk\__init__.py", line
48, in <mod
ule>
from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I googled this problem and noticed that there are quite a few people
having the same problem. But I am unable to find anything which helps
me solve this problem.

Could you please give me some suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[News123]

Hi Yang,

Did you modify the path environment variable to point to your gtk lib?


This might be the problem.


Below the steps, that I followed.

General instructions are under http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html

In detail:

Install the GTK+ bundle

* Download the bundle http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.16/gtk+-bundle_2.16.6-20091013_win32.zip
* unpack it and copy the directory for example to C:\
* Now append C:\gtk+-bundle_2.16.6-20091013_win32\bin to the path environment variable of windows You can change it under:
My_Computer->Properties->Advanced->Environment_Variables->System_Variables->Path

Test it:
Open a new cmd window and type

gtk-demo

A window should pop up. if not your installation failed


Now install PyCairo, PyGObject and PyGTK (please select the binary corresponding to your python version) The links are currently:

* http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pycairo/1.4/
* http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygobject/2.14/
* http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.12/

bye


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