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How does one install pygobject from the official repository?

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I want to install the Pygobject package on my Ubuntu 13.10. I tried the JHBuild option but I got stuck at the end of a very lengthy process.

The tutorial website of Pygobject says that it comes packaged with all its dependencies for nearly all Linux distros and it can be installed from the official repository of a distribution.

I looked for it on the software center but couldn't find it. All it returned it was some spellchecking libraries and development headers for gobject python bindings(I am a beginner so please let me know if this is what I need to build pygtk applications in python 3.3.2) .

I am guessing this needs to be installed using the command line interface but can't figure out how.

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answered 1 Year ago ciousuntru · Accepted Answer

Development libraries usually don't show up very well in the software center. Usually using apt-cache search will help here. So for example:

apt-cache search python gobject

Will show you all the packages related to python and gobject introspection. Here is a snippet of the results:

python-gi - Python 2.x bindings for gobject-introspection libraries

python-gi-cairo - Python Cairo bindings for the GObject library

python-gi-dbg - Python bindings for the GObject library (debug extension)

python-gi-dev - development headers for GObject Python bindings

python-gobject - Python 2.x bindings for GObject - transitional package

python-gobject-2 - deprecated static Python bindings for the GObject library

python-gobject-2-dbg - deprecated static Python bindings for the GObject library (debug extension)

python-gobject-2-dev - development headers for the static GObject Python bindings

python-gobject-dbg - Python 2.x debugging modules for GObject - transitional package

python-gobject-dev - Python 2.x development headers for GObject - transitional package

python-pyudev - Python bindings for libudev

python3-gi - Python 3 bindings for gobject-introspection libraries

python3-gi-cairo - Python 3 Cairo bindings for the GObject library

python3-gi-dbg - Python 3 bindings for gobject-introspection libraries (debug extension)

python3-pyudev - Python3 bindings for libudev

Since you are looking for python 3 I would install python3-gi, that's probably the package you are looking for, so ...

sudo apt-get install python3-gi