[Eric] Problems with eric6 on Ubuntu 18.10

[Detlev Offenbach]

sip should be uninstalled because PyQt5 5.11.2 uses a private sip. The way it 
is on your system causes the obsolete version being used. Please note that 
upgrading PyQt5 might need an upgrade of QScintilla as well.

Detlev

Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2018, 19:44:15 CEST schrieb Tony Arnold:
> Hi Boyuan,
> 
> On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 13:37 -0400, 073plan at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > 在 2018年10月25日星期四 EDT 下午1:26:02，Tony Arnold 写道：
> > 
> > > I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10 and have hit problems running
> > > eric6
> > > (version 18.10).
> > 
> > 
> > Ubuntu 18.10 didn't ship eric6 18.10 in it traditional apt/dpkg
> > repository.
> > It was shipping eric6 18.05-1.1. Did you install from some other
> > repositories,
> > like the snap store or something like that? Or did you just manually
> > installed
> > eric6?
> 
> 
> I downloaded from the eri6 web site. eric6 was installed before I
> upgraded.
> 
> 
> > > When I first ran it using the pyqt5 (5.11.2) and sip (4.19.2)
> > > installed
> > > from the Ubuntu respositories, I got the following:
> > 
> > 
> > Ubuntu 18.10 never ships python3-sip 4.19.2. It ships python3-sip
> > 4.19.12.
> > Was it a typo?
> 
> 
> Yes, that was a typo. I have 4.19.12.
> 
> 
> > > $ eric6
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > 
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/eric6/eric6.py", line 28, in
> > > 
> > > <module>
> > > 
> > >     import Globals.compatibility_fixes     # __IGNORE_WARNING__
> > >   
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/eric6/Globals/__init__.py",
> > > 
> > > line
> > > 21, in <module>
> > > 
> > >     from PyQt5.QtCore import QDir, QLibraryInfo, QByteArray,
> > > 
> > > QCoreApplication, \
> > > RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v12.0 to v12.4 but the
> > > PyQt5.QtCore module requires API v12.5
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like a bug at Ubuntu side and perhaps you should contact
> > Ubuntu 
> > Developers.
> 
> 
> Looks like a mismatch between version of sip and version og PyQt.QtCore
> to me.
> 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> >  
> > > So I installed pyqt5 using pip which also installed a newer version
> > > of sip
> > > eric6 runs, but I get:
> > 
> > 
> > Installing pyqt5 from pypi without coordination with other pyqt5-
> > written 
> > software can easily mess up your system, especially when Ubuntu 18.10
> > is 
> > shipping shiny new openssl 1.1.1...
> 
> 
> Yes, I've discovered that in the past! Virtual environments can help,
> but not sure if eric6 supports installing/running in a venv.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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