Issues installing wxgtk2.8 for SITL

ArduCopter
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Hello everyone,

I was trying to set up SITL on Linux VM and when I used the command:
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib python-serial python-wxgtk2.8 python-lxml

The following error occurred:

Package python-matplotlib is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package ‘python-matplotlib’ has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package python-serial

I also tried using wxgtk3.0 but that resulted in the same error as well

If anyone is able to help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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You may need to run sudo apt update first to update the package list.

Which Linux distribution are you running?

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I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 and I did apt update

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Ubuntu 20.04 does not have have the python-* packages as they have moved to Python 3, you will need to run

 sudo apt-get install python3-matplotlib python3-serial python3-wxgtk4.0 python3-lxml

The instructions you quoted above refer to quite old versions of packages.

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hello,

Which instruction are you following ? Our install script already cover this

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thank, i solved query