Couldn't Install PyQt6 on Ubuntu 20.04

[Florian Bruhin]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 05:17:04AM +0100, مهدي شينون wrote:
> When trying to install PyQt6 on Ubuntu, Instead of downloading the wheel
> from pypi it tries to build it from source-archive.
> 
> I have to upgrade pip (from pypi) to be able to install the official wheel
> from pypi.

That's to be expected. PyQt uses a PEP 600 manylinux_2_28 platform tag:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0600/
https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/542

Support for it was added in pip 20.3 (November 2020), but Ubuntu 20.04
ships with pip 20.0 (January 2020).

Florian

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