Can't install PyQt via pip because it ask about the license
Phil Thompson
phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Wed Oct 5 12:41:51 BST 2022
On 05/10/2022 12:36, c.buhtz at posteo.jp wrote:
> Dear Mr. Thompson,
>
> thanks for your patience with me.
>
> On 2022-10-05 11:52 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> That's the bug reported a couple of days ago that affects older
>> versions of Python. The workaround is to remove the 'strict=True'
>> argument. I will release v6.7.1 soon.
>
> v6.7.1 of what? If it is PyQt then it should be backported to PyQt5
> also. I couldn't find that bug in the mailing list for the last two
> months. This is a good situation to explain why this project need a bug
> tracker: I can't find a bug, You can not reference a bug (mailing list
> threads doesn't count) and no one can monitor a bug (keeping informed
> via mail/rss/... notification). Subscribing a whole mailing list just
> to monitor one bug is not a solution.
SIP v6.7.1.
> Ok, I removed the "strict" argument as you said and got this lines of
> output.
Actually it's more complicated than that - wait for the fixed SIP
release.
> These bindings will be built: Qt, pylupdate, pyrcc.
> Generating the Qt bindings...
> Generating the pylupdate bindings...
> sip-install: /home/user/PyQt5-5.15.7/sip/QtCore/qprocess.sip: line 99:
> column 5: 'Q_PID' is undefined
>
> I do not know if this is a warning an error or critical. Maybe I have
> to clear some files from the previous build before?
>
> PyQt5 is still not importable. So I assume it is an error/critical.
>
> Python 3.8.10 (default, Jun 22 2022, 20:18:18)
> [GCC 9.4.0] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import PyQt5
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'
Run sip-install with the --verbose flag to see why it doesn't want to
build all the bindings.
Phil
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