Installing Gir1.2-gtk-3.0 On Centos

On Ubuntu there is a package for installing gir1.2-gtk-3.0: sudo apt install gir1.2-gtk-3.0 Centos 'dnf provides gir1*' results in error: No Matches found The package can be found

Solution 1:

The gir1.2-* packages are for Debian and Debian-derived distributions.

The introspection data that is consumed by the Python bindings is provided by typelib files, for instance:

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Gtk-3.0.typelib

These files are provided by the library package, on CentOS, alongside the actual shared library. For instance, the Gtk-3.0.typelib file is provided by the gtk3 package.

The GIR files are XML descriptions of the API that are only used when generating the introspection data; they are provided by the devel package, on CentOS. For instance, the Gtk-3.0.gir file is provided by the gtk3-devel package.

If pygobject cannot find the typelib file, it's likely that you've installed it in some non-standard location. You must use the GI_TYPELIB_PATH environment variable to list all the locations where the typelib data might be found, as a colon-separated list of paths.