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Josh Weinstein
Josh Weinstein

Reputation: 2968

Trouble installing PyQt on Mac, version mis-reading

So after installing the whole 5.5 Qt package, and installing SIP, and the Xcode command line tools, I get this problem when trying to install the PyQt folder i got from the .gz I downloaded from the website

   Joshuas-MacBook-Pro-2:PyQt-gpl-5.5 Josh$ python configure.py -q /Users/Josh/Qt/5.5/clang_64/bin -d /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/
Querying qmake about your Qt installation...
sh: /Users/Josh/Qt/5.5/clang_64/bin: is a directory
Error: PyQt5 requires Qt v5.0 or later. You seem to be using v3. Use the
--qmake flag to specify the correct version of qmake.

However, I clearly have v5.5 of Qt.

Any idea how to fix this or type in a different command to install it directly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 602

Answers (1)

LozzerJP
LozzerJP

Reputation: 856

After spending much time getting PyQt working smoothly on a Mac, my strong recommendation is to install PyQt via Homebrew. The steps are very simple:

1) Install homebrew from here

2) Edit your ~./bash_profile to include the following at the top, so that later installs will see the brew versions of installs:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

3) Refresh your terminal window:

>source ~/.bash_profile

4) Then, simply install python, sip, pyqt in that order:

>brew install python
>brew install sip
>brew install pyqt

You should now have a fully working python/pyqt environment that you can customize via pip etc.

Upvotes: 1

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