wxpython in Alpine Linux

black-clover · 05-22-2018, 01:20 AM

I'm trying to install Trelby in Alpine Linux.
When I launch python setup.py install, I get the following error:

Code:

    alpine# python setup.py install                               
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "setup.py", line 114, in <module>
    import misc
    File "src/misc.py", line 3, in <module>
    import gutil
    File "src/gutil.py", line 3, in <module>
    import util
    File "src/util.py", line 20, in <module>
    import wx
    ImportError: No module named wx

Now the Trelby readme indicates these dependencies:

External dependencies required: 1) Python 2.7 2) wxWidgets (2.8) and its Python bindings (wxPython) 3) lxml

I installed Trelby in Arch and Debian which indicate these dependencies:

ARCH 1) python2 (pypy19, stackless-python2, placeholder) 2) python2-lxml 3) python2-setuptools 4) wxpython (wxpython-nuitka, wxpython-gtk2, python2-wxpython3)

DEBIAN 1) python2 2) python-lxml 3) python-crypto 4) python-wxgtk3.0

In Alpine I installed the following packages:

ALPINE (installed) 1) python2, python2-dev 2) py-lxml, py2lxml, py3xlml 3) py-setuptools 4) wxgtk-base-3.0.3, wxgtk-3.0.3, wxgtk-dev, wxgtk2.8-dev, wxgtk2.8, wxgtk2.8-base

I also installed mock, py2-mock, py3-mock

And still I get the above error.

My question is: which package is missing, since I can't find any other wx widgets package in the Alpine repo that might fit the bill?

pan64 · 05-22-2018, 02:07 AM

if I understand it well the wxpython* packages are missing on alpine. But it is only a guess.

black-clover · 05-22-2018, 02:16 AM

Yes, I installed all those listed under Alpine (installed) to see if one fulfilled the requirement but none did. The error, I assume, has to do with wx.

pan64 · 05-22-2018, 02:59 AM

for me the wx module is located here:

Quote:

probably:

Code:

pip install wxPython
pip install wxPython-common

helps, but probably you need first install pip.

black-clover · 05-22-2018, 02:25 PM

pan64

Good input, I compared Alpine /usr/lib/python2.7 dir with Debian and Arch and wx is not there.

Pip failed to bulid wxpython:

Command "/usr/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-OL1x9j/wxpython/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-PWxUsy/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-OL1x9j/wxpython/

Further digging verified that wxwidgets seems to be absent among Alpine packages.
There is wxgtk but it doesn't seem to provide wxwidgets or python bindings.
I hope someone well versed in Alpine can provide a workaround solution.

black-clover · 05-22-2018, 10:38 PM

I downloaded the wxpython.tar.gz (there is no wheel for alpine linux) and installed the sources with build.py.
now the trelby install passes wx but gives this error:

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
from wx.core import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx/core.py", line 12, in <module>
from ._core import *
ImportError: No module named _core