How to set up PyQt4 for python 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.04

[neurobot]

1) Open the synaptic package manager and install python 3.2
2) Open a terminal emulator and type

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev

3) Download the program SIP from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/...-4.12.3.tar.gz
4) extract the folder using tar -xzf sip-4.12.3.tar.gz, cd into folder
5) in terminal emultator, type

python3.2 configure.py
make
sudo make install

now sip is installed
6) install pyqt4 with the command

sudo apt-get install python-qt4 qt4-dev-tools python-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools

If that didn't work for you, download pyqt4 from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/...l-4.8.4.tar.gz
Untar and install pyqt4 the same way you installed SIP

you should be able to type in terminal

python3.2
>>import sys
>>from PyQt4 import QtGui

If you didn't get any errors, you installed everything correctly

[amartinis]

Thank you very much. Your clear instructions worked perfectly.

[ikt]

Just bumping this because it's really great!

[charlie42]

Hello everyone,

I try to install PyQt for Python3 on Debian6 (I know that here is Ubuntu, but Ubuntu and Debian are pretty close, I hope to find a solution here).

The installation is complicated (currently) at the make command to sip install.

Here is an excerpt of the error message I get in the terminal

siplib.c: In function ‘sip_api_convert_from_sequence_index’:
siplib.c:5279: error: ‘PyExc_IndexError’ undeclared (first use in this function)
siplib.c: At top level:
siplib.c:5291: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:5317: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
...
...
...
...
siplib.c:10457: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10468: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10496: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10506: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10534: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10557: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10582: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10816: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10827: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c: In function ‘raiseNoWChar’:
siplib.c:10840: error: ‘PyExc_SystemError’ undeclared (first use in this function)
siplib.c: At top level:
siplib.c:10849: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
siplib.c:10882: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
make[1]: *** [siplib.o] Erreur 1
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/charlie/Téléchargements/sip-4.12.3/siplib »
make: *** [all] Erreur 2

If anyone has an idea, I'm interested greatly.

In advance thank you.

[benson444]

I think you need to install the Python 3 development package. i.e. python3-dev, python3.2-dev or something like that.

[charlie42]

Thank you very much, it is this that I was missing