[PyQt] Error installing PyQt5

[Phil Thompson]

On 06/01/2020 12:41, s.achterop at rug.nl wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Installing pyqt5 gives the following error on debian/buster.
> 
> $ pip3 install PyQt5
> Collecting PyQt5
>   Using cached
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3a/fb/eb51731f2dc7c22d8e1a63ba88fb702727b324c6352183a32f27f73b8116/PyQt5-5.14.1.tar.gz
>   Installing build dependencies ... done
>     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>       File "/usr/lib/python3.7/tokenize.py", line 447, in open
>         buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
>     FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/tmp/pip-install-0q6_olh9/PyQt5/setup.py'

My guess would be your version of pip is too old.

Phil