Spinning up compiled pyqt extensions

[Patrick Stinson]

There are indeed headless options. Event a installer script format to
automate installations. Just run with the --help option to figure out how.

And an SO thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25105269/silent-install-qt-run-installer-on-ubuntu-server

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:15 PM Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ok, I'll check it out. Thanks!
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 11:35 AM Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 06/10/2022 19:20, Patrick Stinson wrote:
>> > Ah, I was confused since I thought that they weren't providing an
>> > online
>> > installer for 5.15.2 anymore. I was wrong and the ubuntu installer
>> > still
>> > has that version.
>> >
>> > So building sip extensions requires a gui to run the installer then?
>> > Somewhat reasonable since I guess a non-gui sip extension like mine is
>> > probably the edge case? I begrudgingly had to spin up this whole
>> > PyQt.QtCore C++ extension for backward compatibility with a lib that
>> > uses
>> > qbytearray. Won't need it forever but am still tied to it. Maybe I can
>> > just
>> > copy the bins from the installer to a headless machine.
>>
>> I’m not sure but I think you can run the installer in a command line
>> mode.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>
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