How to Install PyGObject in Linux?

Last Updated : 27 Jan, 2022

PyGObject is a Python extension module that will deliver you clean and consistent access to the complete GNOME software platform with the use of GObject Introspection. PyGObject will deliver full support of GObject Introspection and all of its features (callbacks, GVariant support, closures, sub-classing, etc.).

In this article, we will be looking at the stepwise procedure to install the PyGObject for Python in Linux.

Installing PyGObject for Python on Linux:

Follow the below steps to install Python PyGObject in Linux:

Step 1: Check if Python is installed or not on your system. Here, we run the below command in the terminal of the Linux to check if the Python is already installed in the system or not. In case Python is already installed on your system then the output will be the current version of Python and if it is not installed it will throw an error. For installing python in your system refer to How to Install Python.

python --version

Checking Python installation

Step 2: This step is to update the Linux used by the user to get the latest version so that it can make the process much faster and the system updates will make the installing easily without facing any issue.

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install the PyGObject. Here, it is the final step to install the PyGObject in python just the user needs to type the below-mentioned command in the working Linux terminal and the PyGObject will be successfully installed in the system.

sudo apt-get install -y python-gobject

Installing PyGObject

Verifying PyGObject installation on Linux

For ensuring the installation of PyGObject on our system, we can use the following import command in the Python terminal. If there is an error while importing the module then it means it is not installed properly.