Installing wxPython on Ubuntu 24

wxPython Users
1

TravisCI is an Ubuntu 24.04 linux system
I installed the following dependencies

  • sudo apt install libnotify-dev
  • sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev
  • sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev
  • sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev

But after it builds and I try to execute some wxPython code

I still get the following error

File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.12.4/lib/python3.12/site-packages/wx/init.py”, line 17, in
from wx.core import *
File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.12.4/lib/python3.12/site-packages/wx/core.py”, line 12, in
from ._core import *
ImportError: libtiff.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is this an obsolete dependency?

2

It seems like libtiff-dev should be pulling the runtime library in automatically, but try installing libtiff6 package and see if that resolves the issue.

3

I wound doing this to fix it:

ldconfig -p | grep libtiff
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.6
sudo ldconfig -p | grep libtiff

Then I ran into this problem

ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.32’ not found (required by /home/travis/virtualenv/python3.12.4/lib/python3.12/site-packages/wx/_core.cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so)

And I fixed it by doing this:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade libstdc++6

Now I am getting this error:

ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38’ not found (required by /home/circleci/project/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/wx/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.2.so.0)

4

I don’t think that’s going to work. It might “fix” the error but it is not going to work - generally library soname version changes like that are incompatible.

Are you sure this is really an Ubuntu 24.04 system? If so, it should have libtiff6.

5

Dang it !!!.

The CI environment was Jammy (Ubuntu 22.04). I was installing the 24.04 version of wxPython. Once I switched to Noble (Ubuntu 24.04), wxPython installed correctly and voila !!! no more errors.

Thanks for that “sanity” check

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6

My sanity check bounces, too.

lol

7

in a venv bash do pip install wxpython