Help getting python code running with python 3 (with GUI)

[Hitman928]

Hi,

I am not a programmer nor an expert with Linux, but have a task to get code that was written for python2 to run on python3. Alternatively I could just use python2 if I could figure out how to get pygtk installed/running with RHEL8.

When I try to run the script using python 2, I get the following error: ImportError: No module named pygtk. Obviously pygtk isn't installed or else isn't configured properly but I cannot figure out how to get it installed/configured correctly.

I found this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/697397/python3-is-not-supporting-gtk-module

But trying to put the suggested lines into the script doesn't help, I get the following error: No module named gi. Perhaps I am not doing it correctly though (just put the lines at the start of the python script).

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Google search for "how to install pip" and "how to install python modules using pip" - the exact command you'll use will be something along the lines of "python -m pip install pygtk" but there's some prerequisite steps first that can differ from system to system.

Afaik those libraries aren't part of the standard python installation, so yeah.