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I have an application that I want to make a package and share it. This app of mine uses PyQt4 of version 4.10.3. Now, I add the following to the install_requires option in my setup.py file: ["pyqt4 >= 4.10.3", ]. However, I am not sure why, but it doesn't seem to be able to find PyQt4 on PyPi. What am I missing here? Could anyone help me out?

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  • That question is slightly out of date, since PyQt4 is [actually on PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt4/) nowadays… but it's still not installable via `pip`/`easy_install`/`install_requires`, so it's still the same problem. – abarnert Jan 18 '14 at 22:13
  • @abarnert, Thanks. Actually, that was why I had posted the question again. In the accepted answer I see that we can "repackage PyQt with distutils". Any help on how that can be done? – gravetii Jan 18 '14 at 22:17
  • I believe there used to be a page on Riverbank's site explaining that this is not a bug, it's intentional, for two reasons: (a) you'd still need to require people to manually install the Qt4 libs on most platforms, so you might as well, and (b) it could lead your users to violate the PyQt license without realizing it. – abarnert Jan 18 '14 at 22:17
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    I think the answered was suggesting that the OP could do all the work himself to create a `pip`-able `setup.py` for PyQt4… Anyway, you can package PyQt4 into a binary app install with most tools (py2exe, py2app, cx_Freeze, etc.), and of course if you're building a deb/rpm/port/recipe/etc. you can add it as a dependency at that level… but for source installs you basically need to tell people to install both Qt4 and PyQt4. – abarnert Jan 18 '14 at 22:18

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