Hi,
I think that Anaconda is maybe too much, but I would advice to checkout
miniconda, which is basically just the installer and the python
interpreter and serves the same purpose, without including a scientific
python distribution with jupyter, to install Leo. My advice is to create
a Leo installer/updater using miniconda as a base. Same installation
recipes should work on miniconda and anaconda.
Cheers,
Offray
On 27/03/17 18:49, Largo84 wrote:
Thanks for that, Edward. I looked at Anaconda a few days ago, but
found it a little overwhelming. Maybe it will be easier than I think
once I get started. I'd like to revert one of my Win10 machines to 32
bit version so I can install pyenchant. Would it be best to uninstall
everything and start over from scratch with Anaconda? Leo works fine
on that machine now (except for no spell check).
Rob....
On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 6:05:41 PM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Largo84 <[email protected]
<javascript:>> wrote:
I am trying to set up Leo for a colleague on his Windows PC
and see that it's much more difficult than I recall,
especially for non-programmers. Apparently, PyQt no longer
provides Windows binary installation executables. Not really
knowing what else to try, I opened the Python command shell
and typed `pip3 install PyQt5` and got a syntax error.
PyQt5 seems to be a moving target. It's possible to screw up a
previously working Qt5 installation, as I demonstrated several
times today.
My suggestion is to start with a Python 3 version of Anaconda. I
also recommend installing 32-bit versions, even on 64-bit
systems. That way you can install
pyenchant.
I have been successful in installing 4.1.1 on both Python 2 and 3.
The installers are:
- Anaconda2-4.1.1-Windows-x86.exe and
- Anaconda3-4.1.1-Windows-x86.exe
According to my notes, Anaconda 4.2 was buggy: it does not handle
QTreeWidget properly. This was several months ago. Perhaps
things are better now.
Once you get Anaconda installed and working, you should be able to
use conda install. If you have multiple Anaconda installations,
you will need to use the proper conda script, in either
Anaconda2/scripts or Anaconda3/scripts.
Sorry if the answer is obvious or easy, but for me it's
neither. Any help or suggestions appreciated.
Clearly, installing both python and pyqt (and especially pyqt5)
is made more difficult by qt bugs. But in the long run, I think
using Anaconda is the best bet.
Having said that, Lewis's suggestions might be enough.
Edward
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "leo-editor" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
an email to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"leo-editor" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
