Problem installing PyQt6 via PyPI

[Phil Thompson]

On 05/01/2021 10:18, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hello Phil,
> 
> trying to install PyQt6 via "pip install PyQt6" results in an error.
> The command downloads the .tar.gz file and tries to build the wheel
> from there, which fails. Trying to install the downloaded wheel fails
> as well.
> 
> ./pyqt6env/bin/python3 -m pip install
> ~/Downloads/Python/PyQt/PyQt6/PyQt6-6.0.0-6.0.0-cp36.cp37.cp38.cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
> 
> ERROR:
> PyQt6-6.0.0-6.0.0-cp36.cp37.cp38.cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
> is not a supported wheel on this platform.
> 
> The test was done on Kubuntu 20.10 with Python 3.9

Do you have an up to date version of pip?

Phil