Installation

You have two options for getting PyQt5 installed on your system.

1. Install from PyPI
2. Clone from GitHub

PyPI installation

To install via PyPI, simply run pip.

$ pip install python-qt5

Clone from GitHub

Alternatively, you may choose to clone from GitHub.

$ git clone https://github.com/pyqt/python-qt5.git

The fully emulate what pip does for you, there's one more thing you'll need to be aware of.

pip installs a file - qt.conf - at the root of the Python directory which is responsible for telling the PyQt5 run-time about where to find QML libraries. Without it, you might have trouble using PyQt5.

To emulate this, you can add the following environment variable.

# Replace with actual path
$ set QML2_IMPORT_PATH=c:\github\python-qt5\PyQt5\qml