[PyQt] Install PyQt5 via setuptools

[Tony Arnold]

Kyle,

On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 08:13 -0500, Kyle Altendorf wrote:
> 
> On 2016-12-07 07:41, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > 
> > Florian,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 13:13 +0100, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> [2016-12-07 11:53:08
> > > +0000]:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I have a PyQt5 application which I package using setuptools.
> > > > I've
> > > > recently, PyQt5 3.5 or later can be installed using pip3, so I
> > > > presumed that PyQt5 could be specified in the
> > > > 'install_required'
> > > > option in my setup.py file. However, this fails to install
> > > > PyQt5
> > > > when installing my package.
> > > How does it fail?
> > It says:
> > 
> > Searching for PyQt5
> > Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/PyQt5/
> > No local packages or working download links found for PyQt5
> > error: Could not find suitable distribution for
> > Requirement.parse('PyQt5')
> > 
> > 
> > I'm running on Ubuntu 16.10 inside a virtualenv with Python 3.5.
> What command are you running?  `python setup.py develop` won't work,
> you 
> have to use `pip install -e .` from within the same directory as 
> `setup.py`.  Then pip will search PyPI for dependencies.

I'm running 'python setup.py install' and in my setup.py file, I
have install_requires=['PyQt5', 'pyexiftool', 'keyring']

Note that pyexiftool is not available on PyPI, so I have a
dependency_link defined for that which works just fine, but it means
that your suggestion of 'pip install -e .' fails trying to install
'pyexiftool'. Your suggestion works and installs PyQt5 if I remove
'pyexiftool' from the install_requires line.

Regards,
Tony.
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