How to install PySide package for CentOS 7

Question

I'm trying to install PySide on CentOS 7.

Seems pretty straightforward, enable EPEL repo, and install. Except that EPEL doesn't seem to contain a PySide package (yum install python-pyside fails with no package available).

Is there another repo that contains this package?

Annoyingly, PyQt does exist and installs easily...

Answer 1

There is no "python-pyside" package in EPEL 7: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/letter_p.group.html

I have solved this with pip install, however you may need to install some prerequisites first.

1) install RPM packages:

qt-devel
cmake
python-devel
python-pip

2) if you qmake program is not "/usr/bin/qmake" you may need to do something like this:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 /usr/bin/qmake

3) install pyside via pip (this will take some time for build to complete):

sudo pip install pyside

Answer 2

I did not see any official packages for this in any of the normal CentOS repositories so you'll likely have to download the source package and attempt to rebuild it yourself.

I would start with the Fedora 21 version of the package available here:

• http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/21/source/SRPMS/p/python-pyside-1.2.2-2.fc21.src.rpm

Once downloaded you can use rpmbuild to rebuild it, assuming you have the necessary compilation environment stood upon a CentOS 7 system.