Since I found no answer for my question, neither in older posts nor in other forums, I want to ask the stackoverflow community for advice.
I am using a raspberry pi 3B
The instructions used in the accepted answer did not work for me. I think it's simply because they are outdated. I wanted to post the list of commands that did work for me. I'm running a Pi 400 with the latest version of Raspbian as of 12/20/2020. I used the default python3
rather than python3.6
.
Here is the modified list of commands that worked for me:
sudo apt-get install qt5-default
sudo apt-get install sip-dev
cd /usr/src
sudo wget https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip/sip-5.5.1.dev2011271026.tar.gz
sudo tar xzf sip-5.5.1.dev2011271026.tar.gz
cd sip-5.5.1.dev2011271026
sudo python3 setup.py build
sudo python3 setup.py install
sudo wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/28/6c/640e3f5c734c296a7193079a86842a789edb7988dca39eab44579088a1d1/PyQt5-5.15.2.tar.gz
sudo tar xzf PyQt5-5.15.2.tar.gz
cd PyQt5-5.15.2
sudo python3 configure.py
sudo make
sudo make install