ImportError: /usr/lib/wxPython/lib/libwx_gtk2ud-2.4.so: undefined symbol: _gtk_accel_group_detach

[Wes Shull]

Ralf Sigmund <sigmund at ipk-gatersleben.de> wrote:

> I have been trying to install wx-python on my current installation of 
> Fedora Core 1.9 as I have done it before several times.
[...]
> ImportError: /usr/lib/wxPython/lib/libwx_gtk2ud-2.4.so: undefined 
> symbol: _gtk_accel_group_detach

You should follow the list; I mentioned this just a few days ago (in a 
thread about BitTorrent, which uses wxPython).  Currently wxGtk is using 
private Gtk symbols that they're not supposed to, which Gtk stopped 
exporting recently.  See:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=915333&group_id=9863&atid=109863

As for a remedy...
a) stop using libraries from people that do dumb things in their code ;-) 
or
b) downgrade gtk, and everything else that requires the current version.  
Not my idea of fun.

Myself, I've gone with option a for the moment.