Recommended way for installing PySide on Ubuntu

Question

What is the recommended way of setting up PySide for development in Ubuntu?

sudo apt-get install python3-pyside?
sudo pip install pyside?
sudo easy_install pyside?

For reference, see http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/39223/one-post-with-multiple-questions-or-multiple-posts — sashoalm, Sep 17 '13 at 09:58
@sashoalm these are not multiple question, as the numbering might suggest. OP is asking for the recommended processes of getting PySide on its machine. — Bleeding Fingers, Sep 17 '13 at 10:38
No, that is after I edited his question, see the original revision. — sashoalm, Sep 17 '13 at 10:42
Ok thanks, I just edited the title to better reflect the question left! — pkaramol, Sep 17 '13 at 10:46
@sashoalm +1. now the question how did you decide which one, question, is OP most interested in? or which one OP should (not) be asking? — Bleeding Fingers, Sep 17 '13 at 15:58
I picked at random. He can ask the other questions as separate posts anyway. — sashoalm, Sep 17 '13 at 16:05

Greg Kramida · Answer 1 · 2021-01-21T11:37:05.507

For all Python packages at this point I prefer to use pip, and not even the ubuntu-managed pip but a custom install. It is better not to mix the two, i.e. if you already have packages installed using the python3-pip Ubuntu package, continue using that.

To install custom pip for a single user, you can first set up the latest version of pip as described here:

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

That is, in short:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

python3 ./get-pip.py

To install PySide with the custom pip use:

pip install --user PySide2

To install PySide with the pip from an Ubuntu-managed apt package (thanks @Suzanne Dupéron for the update on that):

sudo apt install python3-pip && pip3 install PySide2

~~Currently**, if you have Qt 5.x set as default on your Ubuntu, you may find that~~

sudo apt-get install python3-pyside

(or python-pyside if you still for some reason want the python 2.7 version) is the only way ~~(without having to revert to Qt 4.x)~~.

The other two ways would return errors of the sort: "Qt QTCORE library not found."

**check the original post date.PySide page on python.org read/reads "PySide requires Python 2.6 or later and Qt 4.6 or better. Qt 5.x is currently not supported."

[EDIT] Thanks to @JBentley for the update: PySide now supports Qt5.

This doesn't work on ubuntu 20.04 fpr `python3-pyside2` (the package is missing). I had to do `sudo apt install python3-pip && pip3 install PySide2` — Suzanne Soy, Jan 20 '21 at 21:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '13 at 22:49

All your options will work. It depends what you are trying to achieve with it and how portable it should be. What usually "just" works without problems is to create a virtualenv first:

apt-get -f install python-virtualenv
virtualenv ~/mypython2.7

With that you can simply use easy_install as recommended to install PySide in your local virtual environment:

~/mypython2.7/bin/easy_install PySide

If you want to build PySide, follow the extensive instructions on their github page

I think this is the best answer (working in a virtualenv) but I would choose `pip install` over `easy_install`. — pkaramol, Mar 01 '16 at 14:57

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '16 at 10:33

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sudo apt-get install python3-pyside is probably the easiest way to install Pyside in Ubuntu.

answered Apr 27 '16 at 10:33

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 21:02

For development I would not install any development packages to system python - You should use virtualenv. Also if you want to save time, first create the distribution egg via "easy_install bdist_egg". Then you can install the egg to your virtualenv (or system python if you prefer) without recompiling everything. Complete instuctions on how to install dependencies, getting pyside source, building and installing are here

ניר · Answer 5 · 2022-06-30T14:38:58.287

Build from source

Why?

will be compiled on your platform which is always better.
you will be able to utilize the shiboken_generator later.
you will have the latest updates and bug-fixes, you wont need to wait for releases.

How?

clone this repo inside your project
download qt online installer from qt site and install what you need.
change the qtpaths from the script to your path, should be something like the path in the script.
run the script with your venv running: source install_pyside6.sh.

Recommended way for installing PySide on Ubuntu

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Build from source

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