Install wxPython 2.8 (For Ride) on OSX “El Capitan”

Question

I\'m trying to install wxPython 2.8 unicode version, to be able to use robotframework-ride.

So far the installer downloaded from the site failed with an error saying \"T

Answer 1

Actually wxPython 3.0 can work with RIDE. here are my pip list:

decorator (4.0.6)
docutils (0.12)
ecdsa (0.13)
Flask (0.10.1)
gunicorn (19.0.0)
itsdangerous (0.24)
Jinja2 (2.7.3)
MarkupSafe (0.23)
paramiko (1.16.0)
pip (7.1.2)
pycrypto (2.6.1)
robotframework (3.0)
robotframework-databaselibrary (0.6)
robotframework-rammbock (0.4.0.1)
robotframework-requests (0.4.0)
robotframework-ride (1.5.1)
robotframework-selenium2library (1.7.4)
robotframework-sshlibrary (2.1.2)
selenium (2.48.0)
setuptools (18.7.1)
vboxapi (1.0)
Werkzeug (0.9.6)
wheel (0.26.0)
wxPython (3.0.2.0)
wxPython-common (3.0.2.0)

Pip cannot find wxPython to install. use homebrew instead:

$homebrew install wxPython (will install 3.0.2.0)
$pip install robotframework (will install 3.0)
$pip install robotframework-ride (will install 1.5.1)

Allow 3.0 check to '~/homebrew/lib/python2.7/site-packages/robotide/__init__.py':

if sys.platform == 'darwin':
    supported_versions.append("2.9")
    supported_versions.append("3.0")

Remove ~/.robotframework before start ride.py to void RIDE crashing when loading last-opened folder. Make a short shell script ~/homebrew/bin/ride:

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ~/.robotframework
~/homebrew/bin/ride.py

and chmod +x ~/homebrew/bin/ride. From shell enter 'ride', all should work well -- just reopen your test suite each time.