[PyQt] Cannot install PyQt 5 on Ubuntu 14.04 (Python 3.4)

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 22:08 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 10 Jan 2017, at 6:45 pm, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Although there are wheels available for Python 3.4 now, it is still not possible to install PyQt 5 in a venv created on Ubuntu 14.04.
> > 
> > I get the following error:
> > 
> > ```
> > pip install pyqt5
> > Collecting pyqt5
> >   Using cached PyQt5-5.7.1-5.7.1-cp34.cp35.cp36-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> > Collecting sip>=4.19 (from pyqt5)
> >   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement sip>=4.19 (from pyqt5) (from versions: )
> > No matching distribution found for sip>=4.19 (from pyqt5)
> > ```
> > 
> > Checking on PyPI, there are only wheels for sip==4.19 for Python 3.5+ and no tarball at all, hence the failure.
> 
> There are no SIP wheels for Python v3.4 because it's less confusing to support the same versions across all platforms.
> 
> Phil

So, how am I supposed to install the PyQt5 wheel on Python 3.4 then?

Besides, I did not understand your justification for the lack of sip
wheel for Python 3.4.

Ghis