no wx package for panda3d 1.8

I have tried adding wx to the sys.path by doing:

sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode')

and this is what I got:

couldn't import direct.wxwidgets
couldn't import wx
Unknown module: direct.showbase.WxGlobal
Unknown module: direct.wxwidgets
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_gizmos-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_gl-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_media-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8.so.0
:Packager(warning): No such file: libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0
Generating wx/cmu_1.8/linux_amd64/wx.cmu_1.8.linux_amd64.mf

I feel like im missing something really simple but I cant figure it out.