The instructions for installing wxPython on other platforms can be found here. I usually run Fedora as my desktop OS and the lack of an easy way to install all the dependencies and such is what spurred this post.
I have run these steps on Fedora 36 and 38 successfully
Clone wxPython repository
This step is not neccessary unless you are building from source code (which is not happening here).
git clone git@github.com:wxWidgets/Phoenix.git
Install dependencies
Install the Fedora equivalent to Ubuntu’s build-essentials
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel
Fedora versions of required packages
sudo dnf install \
dpkg-dev \
python3-devel \
freeglut-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU \
gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel \
gtk3-devel \
libjpeg-turbo-devel \
libnotify-devel \
libpng-devel \
SDL2-devel \
libSM-devel \
libtiff-devel \
webkit2gtk4.0-devel \
libXtst-devel
Install wxPython
It is recommended to install packages like wxPython in a virtual environment. To do this make sure you have the python3-virtualenv package installed.
Install virtualenv
sudo dnf install python3-virtualenv
Create new virtual environment
Navigate to preferred project directory path then create a new virtual environment with the following command:
virtualenv .venv
Activate the newly created virtual environment:
source .venv/bin/activate
Update pip
pip install --upgrade pip
Use wxPython build script to complete installation
Before continuing, the attrdict3 package must be installed first.
pip install attrdict3
Then continue with the wxPython installation.
pip install wxpython
If on low power computer and building wxPython fails
My laptop is a 10 year old Chromebook flashed with Fedora 36 and was not able to build the wxPython wheel. The solution I was able to find was to download the pre-built wheel from official site and install it that way.
Get wheel
wget https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/fedora-36/wxPython-4.2.0-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl
Install wheel
pip install wxPython-4.2.0-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl