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So I am facing this error:

RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v11.0 to v11.2 but the module requires API v12.0

I believe this has been answered a few times on the web for different versions of sip and PyQt4, however, I could not find any set answer for two definite things:

  • Everyone asks to remove all versions of sip and PyQt4 before a fresh installation. Can someone help with a set command to do that (remove all sip and PyQt4 versions iteratively)?

  • I want to run PyQt4 import QtGui specifically. Can someone tell me the right PyQt4 and sip version to do that?

OS Details 

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

Python Version

2.7.12

Thanks for helping,

Adarsh

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  • Nobody can help you unless you explain *exactly* what you have already done. What did you install (give all the specific versions), and how did you install them? – ekhumoro Jan 07 '17 at 21:27
  • I tried the following things- sudo -H pip install SIP and sudo -H pip install PyQt4 which gave me the following error - "Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement SIP/PyQt4 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for SIP/PyQt4" Hence, I further tried - sudo -H pip3 install SIP which worked and installed some module somewhere. Then I dowloaded and installed from the tar files - I installed SIP version - sip-4.19 and I installed PyQt4 version - PyQt4_gpl_x11-4.12 This is as far as I can remember. Please let me know if you need any further info. Thanks Adarsh – Adarsh Ranjan Jan 07 '17 at 23:22
  • Also weirdly enough there seems to be a new folder with distribution packages from python3 in my system now at - /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (I use python 2.7 as earlier mentioned) – Adarsh Ranjan Jan 07 '17 at 23:25

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