Re: PyQt5 (was: LilyPond MIDI Input and Export Tutorials (with Audio Playback) Tutorials)

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno dom 4 dic 2016 alle 9:53, Urs Liska <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> I'm running LMDE2 (Linux Mint Debian Edition), and requesting the 
> Debian
> Version returns 8.4. Interestingly there's exactly one other person
> having expressed this problem and he also was running Debian 8.4.
>
> So I'm pretty sure the problem would go away by upgrading PyQt to a 
> more
> recent version than available in my specific Debian's repositories. 
> But
> I feel daunted to do this manually because it's such a huge beast with
> presumably countless dependencies.
>
> So if anyone can give me a hint on how to force an upgrade or to add a
> current installation *beside* the package one I'd be very glad.

Can you install PyQt in a virtualenv?
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt5/

Otherwise you may try pinning a package in a different repository. 
Don't know how Linux Mint works...