Problems with PyQt5 on Raspi 5 / Debian Bookworm

[Charles]

The last trace of your exception mentions qmake. Building pyqt5 requires
qt5 to be installed. So the question is, do you have qmake (qt5-qmake)
installed or not?

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:23 PM ullix <ullix at urkam.de> wrote:

> I got the new Raspi 5 and tested a few things. I used pip to
> install/modify a dozen packages, and all worked except for *PyQt5.*
>
> PyQt5 had been apt-installed as version 5.15.9, and worked in tests of
> mine. But what failed was when trying to upgrade to 5.15.10. After closer
> instepction I apt-removed the apt-installed PyQt5, and tried to pip-install
> that very same version. It failed with :
>
>   Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
>   Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'
>
> Full error report in attached file.
>
> After reinstalling 'python3-pyqt5' via apt, it worked again.
>
> Where is the problem: Raspi, Debian, pip, pyqt5?
>
> ullix
>
>
> On Raspi 5 I used the default OS install:
> Raspberry Pi OS with desktop
>
>    - Release date: December 5th 2023
>    - System: 64-bit
>    - Kernel version: 6.1
>    - Debian version: 12 (bookworm)
>
>
>
>
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