ImportError: No module named 'sipdistutils' #14

ghost · 2017-03-21T11:14:03Z

On Ubuntu 16.04LTS in a virtualenv, building python-poppler-qt5 fails:

$ cd python-poppler-qt5
$ python3.5 setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 42, in <module>
    import sipdistutils
ImportError: No module named 'sipdistutils'

But sip is installed:

$ pip3 freeze | grep sip
sip==4.19.1

What am I missing?

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syntaxaire · 2017-04-23T02:32:11Z

The same problem is preventing me from even pip installing python-poppler-qt5.
Running this in a venv called 'frescobaldi' with sip installed:

(frescobaldi) syntaxaire@ubuntu:~/Python/frescobaldi$ python --version
Python 3.6.1
(frescobaldi) syntaxaire@ubuntu:~/Python/frescobaldi$ pip list
pip (9.0.1)
PyQt5 (5.8.2)
python-ly (0.9.5)
setuptools (28.8.0)
sip (4.19.2)
(frescobaldi) syntaxaire@ubuntu:~/Python/frescobaldi$ pip install python-poppler-qt5
Collecting python-poppler-qt5
  Using cached python-poppler-qt5-0.24.2.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-60rugen8/python-poppler-qt5/setup.py", line 42, in <module>
        import sipdistutils
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sipdistutils'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-60rugen8/python-poppler-qt5/```

chamcha · 2017-05-28T06:19:22Z

i also have the same issue.

i hope this problem will be fix soon.

francescpuig7 · 2017-05-29T10:00:31Z

I see that the issue remains open, and I have the same error on Windows 10 x64

My environment:

Python 3.6
PyQt5==5.7.1
Sip= 4.9.12

Were able to solve this problem?

jcnengel · 2017-07-21T08:09:32Z

You might want to consider installing the development package for python-sip. This is required for building.

tmattio · 2017-07-25T05:46:10Z

It seems like the pip version of sip does not install sipdistutils. To install it from source, you can do that:

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/sip/sip-4.19.3/sip-4.19.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf sip-4.19.3.tar.gz
cd sip-4.19.3
python configure.py
make
make install

s-m-e · 2017-08-17T10:14:01Z

You can get the sipdistutils.py from riverbank's mercurial server, i.e. from here. It is self-contained. Just place it into your Python site-packages folder ...

sincere-music · 2017-09-02T18:10:58Z

This issue is driving me nuts, TBH. I followed the suggestion in the last comment, but it doesn’t change anything about the error message from Frescobaldi:

~$ frescobaldiTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/frescobaldi", line 7, in <module>
    import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/frescobaldi_app/main.py", line 25, in <module>
    import sip
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sip'

ghost · 2017-10-22T19:38:44Z

sincere-music, are you installing sip to python2 by any chance? Unless your default python is 3.x, you have to replace 'python' by python3 in tmattio's instructions.

sincere-music · 2017-10-22T20:42:58Z

Thanks ccmaass, that really got me a large step forward.
Unfortunately, after that step I’m still not at the goal:

~$ frescobaldi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/frescobaldi", line 7, in <module>
    import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/frescobaldi_app/main.py", line 33, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtCore import QSettings, QTimer, QUrl
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'
~$ sudo -H pip3 install pyqt5
Collecting pyqt5
  Downloading PyQt5-5.9-5.9.1-cp35.cp36.cp37-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (104.6MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 104.6MB 9.5kB/s 
Collecting sip<4.20,>=4.19.3 (from pyqt5)
  Downloading sip-4.19.3-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (63kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 1.3MB/s 
Installing collected packages: sip, pyqt5
  Found existing installation: sip 4.19.2
    Uninstalling sip-4.19.2:
      Successfully uninstalled sip-4.19.2
Successfully installed pyqt5-5.9 sip-4.19.3
~$ frescobaldi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/frescobaldi", line 7, in <module>
    import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/frescobaldi_app/main.py", line 33, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtCore import QSettings, QTimer, QUrl
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'

How should I go about to make Python 3.6 find PyQt5?

sincere-music · 2017-10-22T22:45:27Z

Some more chapters to the story: I noticed that pip wasn’t at the most recent version, and after an awful many turns (including recompiling python3.6 to circumvent an issue with zlib – I can’t believe those things are so convoluted…) I have a python3.6 and matching pip that seem to work fine…
… except:

~$ frescobaldi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/frescobaldi", line 4, in <module>
    from frescobaldi_app import toplevel
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'frescobaldi_app'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
    from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from apport.report import Report
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in <module>
    import apport.fileutils
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in <module>
    from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 23, in <module>
    import apt
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    import apt_pkg
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/frescobaldi", line 4, in <module>
    from frescobaldi_app import toplevel
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'frescobaldi_app'

sincere-music · 2017-10-22T22:46:22Z

I did find this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45012581/how-to-import-python3-lib-in-python3-6, but the virtual environment part doesn’t apply to my use case at all.

sincere-music · 2017-12-26T11:32:44Z

Finally, I compiled a reliable way to install frescobaldi with all its dependencies (except for MIDI support) on Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit
cd ~
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/01/ca/e86c73614a690d778ec9831adee0a728a495f4fb717fab263b5e4887b086/python-ly-0.9.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf python-ly-0.9.5.tar.gz
rm python-ly-0.9.5.tar.gz
cd python-ly-0.9.5
sudo python3 setup.py install
cd ..
wget --show-progress https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/releases/download/v3.0.0/frescobaldi-3.0.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf frescobaldi-3.0.0.tar.gz
rm frescobaldi-3.0.0.tar.gz
cd frescobaldi-3.0.0
sudo python3 setup.py install
cd ..
sudo apt install libpoppler-qt5-1
wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python-poppler-qt5/python3-poppler-qt5_0.24.2-1build1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python3-poppler-qt5_0.24.2-1build1_amd64.deb

fedelibre · 2018-10-23T14:01:04Z

You can get the sipdistutils.py from riverbank's mercurial server, i.e. from here. It is self-contained. Just place it into your Python site-packages folder ...

I confirm it works. Here's a two commands example:

wget https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/hg/sip/raw-file/tip/sipdistutils.py
cp sipdistutils.py .virtualenvs/frescobaldi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/

frescobaldi/python-poppler-qt5#14 (comment)

fedelibre · 2019-06-28T13:32:56Z

sipdistutils.py has been removed from the sip repository as part of legacy stuff.

It should now be downloaded from here:

wget https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/hg/sip/raw-file/79f89221765d/sipdistutils.py

fedelibre · 2019-06-28T13:39:50Z

IIUC, SIP v5 should fix this problem, see this message from a Riverbank developer two months ago:
http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/SIP-sipdistutils-py-not-installed-td5252485.html

AiyionPrime · 2020-02-26T21:23:13Z

Well, welcome to 2020 everyone.
Installing this in a virtualenv still breaks -.-'

davidecappellaro · 2020-03-03T16:01:16Z

Well, welcome to 2020 everyone.
Installing this in a virtualenv still breaks -.-'

I recently successfully managed it working by using colab notebook by google and

!apt-get install python3-poppler-qt5
import popplerqt5

seth4618 · 2020-07-04T20:54:18Z

This bug still exists if you follow the pip install route, but it does work via the apt-get route. tested on ubuntu 18.04

Aens · 2020-07-19T13:45:27Z

This bug happens on Python 3.8 and Windows 10, and I'm not even using a virtualenv to install it. Fails both through PyCharm and CMD

lbartoletti · 2020-09-13T06:17:24Z

sipdistuils has been removed from sip5. Any works on this issue?

coder202 · 2021-05-22T13:25:05Z

Well, welcome to 2020 everyone.
Installing this in a virtualenv still breaks -.-'

I recently successfully managed it working by using colab notebook by google and
!apt-get install python3-poppler-qt5
import popplerqt5

On Fedora it's:
sudo dnf install python3-poppler-qt5

jeanas · 2023-08-09T18:27:57Z

This issue is outdated; we don't use the legacy sipdistutils anymore.

marnen mentioned this issue Nov 30, 2017

3.0.0 build/dmg for Mac OS X frescobaldi/frescobaldi#986

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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sipdistutils' BasioMeusPuga/Lector#58

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frescobaldi-3.0.0: ImportError: No module named 'sipdistutils' frescobaldi/frescobaldi#992

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please make an appimage of this BasioMeusPuga/Lector#81

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wbsoft added this to the make build and install in pip work milestone Apr 23, 2020

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Add support for building with SIP v5 #41

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