Python package installed globally, but not in a virtualenv (PyGTK)

Question

I\'m having some strange issues with PyGTK in \"virtualenv\". gtk does not import in my virtualenv, while it does import in my global python install. (I wasn\'t having this

Answer 1

Another way to do this is to create a .pth file in your virtualenv's site-packages dir

eg

(in /lib/python2.7/site-packages/dist-packages.pth)

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/

This fixed the issue I was having with apt-get installed version of pycairo