First off, Hey ya'll, I'm new. Thanks for being here. I'm a casual Linux user that picked up Ubuntu as an alternative to Windows 10 while in college learning R. Currently I'm trying to run an OBD-II program based in Python on an old Laptop I have running Ubuntu 18.04. I'm attempting to sort through the requisites for a program called PyOBD and I've hit a snag on one.
I need to install wxPython v2.4 specifically for this program. It was written in the early 2000s and there is no support for it. I am not having much luck with the install. I have the tarball. I've got it extracted and when I go to run the ./configure file it fails and pops up:
configure: warning: system tiff library not found, will use built-in instead checking for GTK+ version... checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.7... no * The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to gtk-config. checking for gtk-config... (cached) no checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.3... no The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the * full path to gtk-config. configure: error: Please check that gtk-config is in path, the directory where GTK+ libraries are installed (returned by 'gtk-config --libs' command) is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable and GTK+ is version 1.2.3 or above.
Obviously, this has something to do with GTK, but my novice brain does not comprehend what it's being told. I understand there are 3 versions of GTK and evidently this particular program is looking for one greater than v1.2 (which I am all but positive should already be present in 18.04?) but there is an issue with the filepath. I've tried and failed to update GTK, build and older version (albeit probably doing something wrong), etc. What do?
P.S. Thanks for reading my novel. TLDR is I'm a noob and I'm in way over my head apparently.