How to import wx on Ubuntu 16.04

I have tried installing it using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk3.0

But still when I run a py script with import wx it throws an error 'no module named wx' on Python 2.x and Python 3.x

I also tried installing it using pip:

pip install wxpython

which gives me an error saying failed building wheel for wxpython.

I also tried building wxpython fromsource.

but it shows a network error whenever I try to download the tar.gz file. I have unsuccesfully tried downloading it from multiple networks.

Please help.

3 Answers

In Ubuntu 16.04 and later open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxgtk3.0-dev 

Then check if wx works in Python 2.x as follows:

$ python
>>> import wx

Example code

1. Save the following code as wxPython-window.py

2. Make it executable.

3. Change directories using cd to the parent directory of wxPython-window.py

4. Run the code with ./wxPython-window.py

   #!/usr/bin/python
   import wx
   app = wx.App()
   frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, 'win.py')
   frame.Show()
   app.MainLoop() 

Press Ctrl+Alt+T and type the following:

sudo apt-get install python-wxtools

please check if you have all necessary libraries installed (here is a link for different OS like Ubuntu 16 Libs needed for wx)

# Install necessary development tools, libs, etc.
apt-get install -y build-essential dpkg-dev
apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev \ libsdl1.2-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev \ libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \ libnotify-dev freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libsm-dev \ libwebkitgtk-dev libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \ libxtst-dev