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I am trying to get the script here to work on Raspberry Pi. I have tested it on Windows and Ubuntu and it works fine. But getting pyqt5 working on RPi seems to be a challenge. On Ubuntu the following works:

sudo apt-get python3.5
sudo pip3 install pyqt5

But this doesnt work on Pi as there is no pyqt5 package.

I have tried the below, but while it runs fine I dont think that actually creates python modules:

sudo apt-get install qt5-default pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools

I have tried the below, but it gives me "No files/directories in /tmp/pip-build-2rya72fo/python-qt5/pip-egg-info (from PKG-INFO)"

pip3 install python-qt5

What is the correct way to get pyqt5 working with Python on Raspberry Pi (Jessie)? I need pyqt5 for the WebEngine support.

Lee Melbourne
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Generally a good idea is to do a search on the Pi.

apt-cache search pyqt5

Perhaps the command you need is

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

I suggest you always preferentially use apt-get rather than pip.

joan
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