Python cannot install PyGObject

Question

I try install pygobject by pip

pip install --user PyGObject

but I doesn\'t work:

Collecting PyGObject
  Using cached pygob         


        

Answer 1

Since February 2017, you can install pygobject directly through pip: pip install pygobject. It requires some packages to be installed though.

Before that, it took a while, but it was possible to install pygobject with pip, since this commit.

pygobject wasn't on pypi though, so you had to specify the git or tarball URL:

• git+https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject
• https://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/3.22/pygobject-3.22.0.tar.xz

The latter only works with pygobject 3.22+, which should have happenned around mid-september 2016. (3.21.1 should be the first pip-installable development release)