Install PyQt5 5.14.1 on Linux

Question

pip3 install PyQt5 Collecting PyQt5   Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3a/fb/eb51731f2dc7c22d8e1a63ba88fb702727b324c6352183a32f27f73b8116/PyQt5-5.14.1.tar.gz     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 452, in open         buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')     FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-build-b2zw891b/PyQt5/setup.py'      ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-b2zw891b/PyQt5/ 

Then I downloaded zip folder from https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5 and run:

python3 configure.py --qmake /home/oo/Qt/5.14.0/gcc_64/bin/qmake make sudo make install 

Successful

>>> import PyQt5 >>> import PyQt5.QtCore Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip' >>>  

So I installed

pip3 install PyQt5.sip pip3 install sip 

Successful

but still getting same error No module named 'PyQt5.sip' for import PyQt5.QtCore

also tried PyQtChart but still error

pip3 install PyQtChart Collecting PyQtChart   Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/83/35/4f6328db9a31e2776cdcd82ef7688994c11e265649f503858f1913444ba9/PyQtChart-5.14.0-5.14.0-cp35.cp36.cp37.cp38-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl Collecting PyQt5>=5.14 (from PyQtChart)   Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3a/fb/eb51731f2dc7c22d8e1a63ba88fb702727b324c6352183a32f27f73b8116/PyQt5-5.14.1.tar.gz     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 452, in open         buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')     FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-build-gzep4mr7/PyQt5/setup.py'  ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-gzep4mr7/PyQt5/ 

I also downloaded zip folder from https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqtchart/download and run:

python3 configure.py --qmake /home/oo/Qt/5.14.0/gcc_64/bin/qmake Error: Unable to import PyQt5.QtCore. Make sure PyQt5 is installed. 

QT screenshot::

My end goal is to run candlestick chart using pyqt5.

sudo python3 -m pip install pyqt5 pyqtchart [sudo] password for oo:   The directory '/home/oo/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory '/home/oo/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. Requirement already satisfied: pyqt5 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages Requirement already satisfied: pyqtchart in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages Requirement already satisfied: PyQt5-sip<13,>=12.7 in /home/oo/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pyqtchart) 

but still getting same error:

Python 3.6.9 (default, Nov  7 2019, 10:44:02)  [GCC 8.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import PyQt5 >>> import PyQt5.QtCore Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip' >>>  

Answer 1

I think the initial pip install woes were due to PyQt5 switching to the manylinux2014 platform tag for the latest release (see the wheels on PyPI for 5.14.1 vs 5.14.0). Only pip versions >= 19.3 recognize this platform tag (ref), so if you happen to have an older version of pip, it would instead try to install from source.

Two easy options (to avoid the source install):

• Update pip to the latest via pip3 install --upgrade pip
• Install the previous release, which used manylinux1 (pip3 install pyqt5==5.14.0)

Answer 2

It seems that there is a bug in the latest version of PyQt5 to pypi so I installed a version 5.14:

sudo apt-get update && \     sudo apt-get autoclean  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install \     -y --no-install-recommends \     python3-pip \     python3-setuptools  sudo python3 -m pip install pyqt5==5.14 pyqtchart==5.14 

Copy the example of my previous answer in the main.py and then run:

python3 main.py 

I recommend you search the folders and files generated by your failed attempts and delete them.

_{For my test I used the following Dockerfile}