[Eric] installing eric4 on Kubuntu 7.10

[Jake Beard]

On Thursday 13 December 2007, you wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 6:18 PM, Jake Beard <otakuj462 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm having trouble installing eric4 on Kubuntu 7.10.
> > I thought I had installed all of the eric4 dependencies through apt, but 
it
> > doesn't seem to be working when I go to install eric4. Specifically, I 
have
> > installed the following:
> >
> >     *  Python 2.4.0 or better
> > python2.5
> >
> >     * Qt 4.2.0 or better (from Trolltech)
> > libqt4-core: 4.3.2-0ubuntu3.1
> > libqt4-gui: 4.3.2-0ubuntu3.1
> >
> >     * PyQt 4.1.0 or better (from Riverbank)
> > python-qt4: 4.3-2ubuntu7
> > python-qt4-dbus: 4.3-2ubuntu7
> >
> >     * QScintilla 2.1 or better (from Riverbank)
> > libqscintilla7: 1.7.1-1
> >
> >
> > But when I run the eric4 python install, I get the following error:
> > "
> > Sorry, please install QScintilla2 and
> > it's PyQt4 wrapper.
> > "
> >
> > I also tried installing QScintilla2 from source, downloaded from the 
following
> > loacation:
> > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/QScintilla2/
> >
> > It installed successfully, but the error message persists.
> >
> > Is there some dependency I'm missing? I would greatly appreciate it if you
> > would let me know what you think. Thanks.
> >
> > Jake
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> >
> 
> Check the build instructions carefully for PyQt4 and QScintilla. There
> is (kind of) a circular dependency there. And remember that QScintilla
> has a separate additional build for Python bindings. Lastly, for
> building Eric, it's best to get the latest snapshots for all of it's
> dependencies.
> 

Found the answer here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/eric@riverbankcomputing.com/msg00328.html
The python wrapper was not built. Now it is, and eric4 works great!
Thanks.

Jake