How install wxpython with python3 in linux?, gives me error

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checking for GL/gl.h... no configure: error: OpenGL libraries not available Error running configure ERROR: failed building wxWidgets Traceback (most recent call last): File "build.py", line 1321, in cmd_build_wx wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options) File "/tmp/pip-build-1v9li5h1/wxpython/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 375, in main "Error running configure") File "/tmp/pip-build-1v9li5h1/wxpython/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError raise builder.BuildError(msg) buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error running configure Finished command: build_wx (0m5.163s) Finished command: build (0m5.163s) Command '"/usr/bin/python3" -u build.py build' failed with exit code 1.

Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-1v9li5h1/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-nsn2w9dk-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-1v9li5h1/wxpython/

~ » python3

XXX-PC
Python 3.6.5 (default, May 11 2018, 13:30:17) 
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 import sys
 import wx
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/xxx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wx/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from wx.core import *
  File "/home/xxx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wx/core.py", line 12, in <module>
    from ._core import *

ImportError: libjpeg.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Mike Driscoll Mike Driscoll · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-29T14:17:20

I usually do the following:

pip3 install wxPython

If that does not work, then you may not have one of wxPython's dependencies installed:

https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/blob/master/README.rst#prerequisites

I have noticed on Ubuntu that I sometimes need to install webkit, opengl, etc to get wxPython to install. Your error message even mentions OpenGL as missing, so I would start there.

How install wxpython with python3 in linux?, gives me error

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