[PyQt] 2 PyQt installation questions

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Tuesday 01 February 2011, 10:58:12 Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Windows: Will PyQt source run on Python 3.2 ?  I tried to install the
> binary for 3.1 64-bit and that didn't work on 3.2 64-bit.... is it
> worth trying the source distribution, or are the known problems with
> that?

> Ubuntu: Is there a list of all the dependencies?  Trying to figure
> them out in reverse by decoding the errors is, itself, error-prone,
> if one is not an expert in available packages.  The first one was
> "g++" wasn't found, but who's to say what version is required, etc. 
> After downloading one, there were compilation errors, about variables
> used before being initialized, etc.  The release of interest was
> karmic koala, and the machine was around the world from me, and the
> user reasonably proficient, but not a programmer.  I'm a programmer,
> but not up on Ubuntu.  So we sadly decided that using Windows would
> be easier. I would like to get a cross-platform test-bed running
> here, but this experience didn't encourage me in doing that.

All your problems stems from the fact, that you're about to bypass the 
distributions package management. And yes, you're a good way down in 
trouble land on doing so.

Face the hassle to produce packages similar to those of your 
distributor. Base yours on their work, adjust tarballs and versions, 
build it, done.

That way, you will get the dependencies right, none of your issue should 
occur, and your installation can be cleanly reverted/removed.

I've asked tenderly for interest of automatically build ubuntu packages 
on openSUSEs build service (where I do this for openSUSE all the time). 
As there was no interest and it's a considerable amount of (unpayed) 
work, I decided to leave it alone. 

Pete