How to install the eric IDE on a Raspberry Pi 4 computer
In order to use eric7 on a Raspberry Pi 4 computer a Linux distribution providing Qt6 and PyQt6 packages need to be installed. This recipe was tested on "Manjaro ARM". This requirement is there because up to now no PyQt6 and PyQt6-Qt6 (and the like) wheels for the ARM platform are available via the Python Packaging Index PyPI.
Step 1: Qt6 and PyQt6
Ensure the following Qt6 and PyQt6 packages are installed or install them.
- qt6-base
- qt6-charts
- qt6-doc
- qt6-imageformats
- qt6-multimedia
- qt6-serialport
- qt6-svg
- qt6-tools
- qt6-translations
- qt6-webchannel
- qt6-webengine
- python-pyqt6
- python-pyqt6-charts
- python-pyqt6-sip
- python-pyqt6-webengine
- python-qscintilla-qt6
- qscintilla-qt6
Step 2: Spell Checking
If spell checking is desired, ensure the following packages are installed.
- enchant
- python-enchant
- aspell
- any aspell language dictionary desired (suggested at least 'aspell-en')
Step 3: Prepare eric Installation
In order to install eric it is recommended to create a Python virtual environment in order to isolate the eric execution environment as much as possible from the standard installation. In order to create this environment execute the following in a terminal window. python3 -m venv --system-site-packages ~/eric_env
~/eric_env/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
Note: The switch --system-site-packages is necessary
because there are no PyQt6/Qt6 packages available for the AArch64 (ARM) platform.
This necessitates the use of the packages provided by the distribution.
Step 4: Install eric (eric-ide)
Install eric into the created Python virtual environment by following these steps.
~/eric_env/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade --prefer-binary eric-ide
~/eric_env/bin/eric7_post_install
The second command will create and install desktop menu entries for the eric IDE and the eric Web Browser.
