[PyQt] Unable to install PyQt 5.14

[Damon Lynch]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:04 PM ashwin .D <winash12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>            I am trying to install PyQt 5.14 and I am getting the following errors when I type this command on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
>
> pip3 install PyQt
>
> Collecting PyQt5
>   Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4d/81/b9a66a28fb9a7bbeb60e266f06ebc4703e7e42b99e3609bf1b58ddd232b9/PyQt5-5.14.2.tar.gz
>     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 452, in open
>         buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
>     FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-build-io2s31yp/PyQt5/setup.py'
>
>     ----------------------------------------
> Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-io2s31yp/PyQt5/

Do this:

python3 -m install --user -U pip setuptools

You might want to upgrade wheel while you're at it too, but I guess
that's up to you.

Then install PyQt5.


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