How to configure PyQt4 for Python 3 in Ubuntu?

Question

This question was originally asked in askubuntu.com but got no attention so I think maybe this is a better place to ask.

I installed PyQt4 with synaptic.

I'm using Python3 so I need to configure the path for PyQt4 in eclipse, but it seems synaptic only installed PyQt4 for python 2 since I only found relative files and folders under python 2.6 and 2.7.

So how can I make PyQt4 to work with Python 3 and eclipse ?

Thanks.

UPDATE：

I tried to configure it following this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10914908#post10914908

But after following all the instructions without any error occurs in the way, I get error from running this code in python 3.2:

>>> import PyQt4

The error message is :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named PyQt4

But the strange thing is that the same code results NO error in python 2.7 (I have both 2.7 and 3.2 installed on my machine)

Answer 1

You should be able to install the python 3 version of PyQt4 in ubuntu. Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt4

This way you don't have to compile Qt4 from source. I have also tested this and pyqt4 works with python3.

Source: A quick search in the ubuntu repositories.