Hi, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, if so, please point me towards what I should search for in the archives.
I've been using PyQt3 for years and am very happy with it. As a result we have a number of apps that use it that we need daily. I want to try out PyQt4 as I use Qt4 in my C++ work, but it doesn't seem to be that straightforward. I assume I have to install a SIP snapshot from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/Snapshots/sip4/ Compiling that is no problem, but it seems to want to install the sip.so library into /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sip.so and clobber my existing SIP for my PyQt3 installation. So, I install SIP4 into some other directory by giving configure.py some parameters. That's all fine and seems to work well, my old PyQt3 apps still work after installing SIP4. :) Now comes PyQt4, downloaded from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/Snapshots/PyQt4/ Running "python configure.py" gives me this error: "Error: This version of PyQt requires SIP v4.4.0 or later" I guess it finds my old SIP3 installed in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/, so I should just need to get configure.py to load the new SIP4 instead that is installed elsewhere. But how to do that? I tried with: % export PYTHON_PATH=/opt/sip-20060308/ % python configure.py Same error. So apparently I do it somehow wrong or use the entirely wrong environment variable? As apparently configure.py accepts no commandline parameters to set the parameters I guess the best way is to hack configure.py to get it to add my "/opt/sip-20060308" to the module path. Or am I going about this the entire wrong way? The point is that it's probably no problem at all if I overwrite my PyQt3 installation, but that is no option at the moment. How have you others done it? Or maybe there even are [K]Ubuntu packages somewhere that work alongside PyQt3? Best regards, Jan Ekholm -- Jan Ekholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list PyKDE@mats.imk.fraunhofer.de http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde