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<div>Detlev,</div>
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<div>Apologies as I hadn't fully understood your advice. I've now uninstalled sip using pip and that has fixed the problem.</div>
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<div>Many thanks.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Tony.</div>
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<div>On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 18:35 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:</div>
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<pre>Detlev,</pre>
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<pre>On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 20:10 +0200, Detlev Offenbach wrote:</pre>
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<pre>sip should be uninstalled because PyQt5 5.11.2 uses a private sip.</pre>
<pre>The way it </pre>
<pre>is on your system causes the obsolete version being used. Please note</pre>
<pre>that </pre>
<pre>upgrading PyQt5 might need an upgrade of QScintilla as well.</pre>
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<pre>apt wants to remove other packages which depend on python3-sip,</pre>
<pre>including python3-pyqt5!</pre>
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<pre>I think it's time to report a bug to the Ubuntu folks.</pre>
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<pre>Regards,</pre>
<pre>Tony.</pre>
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<pre>Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2018, 19:44:15 CEST schrieb Tony Arnold:</pre>
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<pre>Hi Boyuan,</pre>
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<pre>On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 13:37 -0400, </pre>
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<pre>073plan@gmail.com</pre>
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<pre> wrote:</pre>
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<pre>在 2018年10月25日星期四 EDT 下午1:26:02，Tony Arnold 写道：</pre>
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<pre>I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10 and have hit problems</pre>
<pre>running</pre>
<pre>eric6</pre>
<pre>(version 18.10).</pre>
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<pre>Ubuntu 18.10 didn't ship eric6 18.10 in it traditional apt/dpkg</pre>
<pre>repository.</pre>
<pre>It was shipping eric6 18.05-1.1. Did you install from some other</pre>
<pre>repositories,</pre>
<pre>like the snap store or something like that? Or did you just</pre>
<pre>manually</pre>
<pre>installed</pre>
<pre>eric6?</pre>
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<pre>I downloaded from the eri6 web site. eric6 was installed before I</pre>
<pre>upgraded.</pre>
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<pre>When I first ran it using the pyqt5 (5.11.2) and sip (4.19.2)</pre>
<pre>installed</pre>
<pre>from the Ubuntu respositories, I got the following:</pre>
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<pre>Ubuntu 18.10 never ships python3-sip 4.19.2. It ships python3-sip</pre>
<pre>4.19.12.</pre>
<pre>Was it a typo?</pre>
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<pre>Yes, that was a typo. I have 4.19.12.</pre>
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<pre>$ eric6</pre>
<pre>Traceback (most recent call last):</pre>
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<pre> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/eric6/eric6.py", line</pre>
<pre>28, in</pre>
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<pre><module></pre>
<pre><br></pre>
<pre> import Globals.compatibility_fixes # __IGNORE_WARNING__</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-</pre>
<pre>packages/eric6/Globals/__init__.py",</pre>
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<pre>line</pre>
<pre>21, in <module></pre>
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<pre> from PyQt5.QtCore import QDir, QLibraryInfo, QByteArray,</pre>
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<pre>QCoreApplication, \</pre>
<pre>RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v12.0 to v12.4 but</pre>
<pre>the</pre>
<pre>PyQt5.QtCore module requires API v12.5</pre>
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<pre>It looks like a bug at Ubuntu side and perhaps you should contact</pre>
<pre>Ubuntu </pre>
<pre>Developers.</pre>
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<pre>Looks like a mismatch between version of sip and version og</pre>
<pre>PyQt.QtCore</pre>
<pre>to me.</pre>
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<pre>So I installed pyqt5 using pip which also installed a newer</pre>
<pre>version</pre>
<pre>of sip</pre>
<pre>eric6 runs, but I get:</pre>
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<pre>Installing pyqt5 from pypi without coordination with other pyqt5-</pre>
<pre>written </pre>
<pre>software can easily mess up your system, especially when Ubuntu</pre>
<pre>18.10</pre>
<pre>is </pre>
<pre>shipping shiny new openssl 1.1.1...</pre>
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<pre>Yes, I've discovered that in the past! Virtual environments can</pre>
<pre>help,</pre>
<pre>but not sure if eric6 supports installing/running in a venv.</pre>
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<pre>Regards,</pre>
<pre>Tony.</pre>
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