Newb Eric/Qt installation problem

[paulofelora]

Hi folks, just getting started with Python, so I loaded Eric6. I'm running Python 3.9.5 on Windows 10. I'm trying to follow Jaime Seuma's LogParser tutorial, but I'm stopped by what seems to be a Qt issue. Jaime instructs to right-click on a Qt button in the "Project View". No matter how many times and different ways I install Eric and Qt, those buttons do absolutely nothing for me at all. I see 2 Qt buttons, one plain, and one with a little green doodad. Both are dead. Any clues on how to get Qt to work with Eric6? Much thanks, paul

[Larz60+]

from command line, use: pip install python-qt5
I'm not sure which Eric you refer to, so see: https://pypi.org/search/?q=eric

[paulofelora]

Thanks Larz60+. I execute the command, I see

Collecting python-qt5
Downloading python-qt5-0.1.10.zip (57.5 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 57.5 MB 3.3 MB/s
Building wheels for collected packages: python-qt5
Building wheel for python-qt5 (setup.py) ... done
Created wheel for python-qt5: filename=python_qt5-0.1.10-py3-none-any.whl size=57493205 sha256=8c3121d5b67d09191cb35e009461e52c62383abc6a783257b4d2c8bfd8d8d121
Stored in directory: c:\users\paulo\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\f2\1d\4f\41dedea35da672455ab9899bd636bfb84419b5fb1c7b592561
Successfully built python-qt5
Installing collected packages: python-qt5
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\users\\paulo\\venv\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt5\\QtCore.pyd'
Check the permissions.

I tried it from several directories, including my "Virtual Machine Folder". I wonder if it could have something to do with that &#%@&& Microsoft OneDrive stuff, because it's in the path for my working environment... Maybe I should think about cleaning everything out and reinstalling Python, Qt and Eric all on local disk paths?

[paulofelora]

I got rid of the Onedrive &^$# stuff and reloaded according to the instructions at

https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/i...-packages/

This time I got a different result, but still not quite there:

(Virtual Machine Folder) C:\Users\paulo\Python Learning\Eric Virtual Machine Folder>pip install python-qt5
Collecting python-qt5
Using cached python_qt5-0.1.10-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: python-qt5
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\users\\paulo\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python39\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt5\\QtCore.pyd'
Consider using the --user option or check the permissions.

Any ideas? thanks, paul

[paulofelora]

Ahh, got it - had to add the "--user" option, as in

python -m pip install eric-ide --user

I appreciate your generous help, Larz60+! paul

[Larz60+]

Sorry to hear it was so difficult on win 10
I'm pretty much Linux only these days, not a great fan of windows 10.