astro-pi / python-sense-emu

An emulator for the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
https://sense-emu.readthedocs.io/
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Sense_emu_gui startup error on WSL Linux #39

Open altex111 opened 3 months ago

altex111 commented 3 months ago

I am having problem starting the gui. I am using ubuntu 20.04 wsl from windows. I have connected to the wsl in vscode. After installing everything acording to the installation manual, I called the sense_emu_gui command and I got the following error message:

dev_wsl@DESKTOP-REFSTK5:~/dev$ sense_emu_gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sense_emu_gui", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('sense-emu==1.1', 'gui_scripts', 'sense_emu_gui')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 490, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2854, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2445, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2451, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sense_emu/gui.py", line 43, in <module>
    gi.require_version('cairo', '1.0')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 129, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace cairo not available

I am hoping you can help me resolve the problem