Easiest way to install pygtk on Mac OS X

Question

Ideally, I would like to install pygtk using pip or Homebrew. Neither one seems to be possible.

I am running Leopard.

You can download the whole package and install easily from [`here`](http://macpkg.sourceforge.net/) — dispatchMain, Mar 13 '14 at 11:57

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 07 '13 at 22:51

I've archive some success running tryton which uses pygtk with Homebrew.

I've uninstalled anything installed before in Homebrew and installed again with:

brew install pygtk

I guess to do the trick is setting the PYTHONPATH as brew says end of install, I do my setup in ~/.bashrc file.

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

I hope it helps

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '11 at 12:23

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You need to install pygtk yourself - at least because since some of its dependencies like dextras are not available through PyPI.

answered Feb 23 '11 at 12:23

Andreas Jung

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So should one first install gtk with homebrew and then pygtk with pip or easyinstall ? – Ib33X Jul 06 '11 at 09:44

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