Installing wxPython in virtualenv under Linux

Question

I am trying to set up a wxpython inside virtualenv. As detailed in many places, the easy_install / pip install dosent work as setup.py is not present.

I cam across

Answer 1

On Ubuntu 12.04 the following worked for me:

cd /lib/python-2.7/site-packages
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/ .
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx.pth .
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wxversion.py .
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wxversion.pyc .