[PyQt] compilation problem PyQt4 on ubuntu 6.10

İsmail Dönmez ismail at namtrac.org
Sun May 18 11:49:20 BST 2008


Hi,

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Mark Thompson <mthompsn at science.uva.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install PyQt4 on XUbuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). PyQt4 is available
> in the apt package manager, but for some reason it only installs PyQt4 to
> the Python2.4 installation, whereas I need it for Python2.5 (also installed
> on the system). So I try a "manual" installation.
>
> I download, unpack, "python2.5 configure.py", make and make install
> sip-4.7.5.tar.gz and PyQt-x11-gpl-4.4.tar.gz from the riverbankcomputing.com
> website. No special parameters anywhere -- default should be fine for me.
>
> Sip compiles and installs fine and in the right Python2.5 location. PyQt
> configures fine, but "make" gives compile error:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mark/tmp/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.4/QtCore'
> g++ -c -pipe -fPIC -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -I.
> -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore
> -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/X11R6/include -o sipQtCoreQMetaType.o
> sipQtCoreQMetaType.cpp
> sipQtCoreQMetaType.cpp:290: error: 'QTransform' is not a member of
> 'QMetaType'
> make[1]: *** [sipQtCoreQMetaType.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mark/tmp/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.4/QtCore'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

You need Qt 4.4 for PyQt 4.4.

Regards,
ismail

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