I am trying to install PyQt4 on mu ubuntu 14.o4 LTS. The installation manual says that before installing PyQt, sip must be installed having version atleast 4.16 . So, I downloaded the archive and installed it as given here
python configure.py
However, when I type sip -V to know the version of sip, I get 4.15. Also if at this stage I try to install PyQt, the installation aborts saying that sip version atleast 4.16 is required
So, I tried to uninstall previously installed sip by pip uninstall sip.
This threw an error, I am pasting the contents of pip.log here.
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/usr/bin/pip run on Thu Oct 9 06:48:46 2014
Cannot uninstall requirement sip, not installed
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/uninstall.py", line 59, in run
requirement_set.uninstall(auto_confirm=options.yes)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1035, in uninstall
req.uninstall(auto_confirm=auto_confirm)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 505, in uninstall
raise UninstallationError("Cannot uninstall requirement %s, not installed" % (self.name,))
UninstallationError: Cannot uninstall requirement sip, not installed
It clearly says that sip is not installed on the system. I am confused about what is happening over here. Please help.
EDIT
Also please note that import sip from within python confirms that no module named sip is there.
