Re: Installing Phoenix on Fedora 26 with pip fails to recognize the installed GStreamer

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, joaom wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm onFedora 26, trying to install Phoenix (because I'm doing Python 3.5,
> don't want to go back to 2.7) with the followingcommand :
> 
> pip install --upgrade --trusted-host wxpython.org --pre -f
> https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython_Phoenix
> 
> At some point the configure scriptfails with :
> 
>     checking for cairo_push_group... yes
>     checking for GST... configure: WARNING: GStreamer 1.0 not available,
> falling back to 0.10
>     checking for GST... configure: WARNING: GStreamer 0.10 not available,
> falling back to 0.8
>     configure: error: GStreamer not available
>     Error running configure
>     ERROR: failed building wxWidgets
> 
> but I *do* have 0.10 install, as dnf shows :
> 
> [root@localhost ~]# dnf info gstreamer
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:34 ago on Mon Mar  6 19:34:46 2017.
> Installed Packages
> Name        : gstreamer
> Arch        : x86_64
> Epoch       : 0
> Version     : 0.10.36
> Release     : 15.fc25
> Size        : 3.4 M
> Repo        : @System
> From repo   : updates
> 
> 
> What could be wrong here ? Anyway I can fix this ?

You need to install the development package for gstreamer.  It is 
gstreamer-devel (or gstreamer1-devel) if you want to use GStreamer 1.0 
which is recommended.

> I was also considering telling configure that I don't need GStreamer, how
> can I do that when using pip ? or should I go for a manual build ? Any help
> appreciated.

You can't do much configuration of the wxPython build currently (ie, turn 
off MediaCtrl).  :(

Scott

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