[Solved]Freecad looking for Qt_5.15 but Qt_5.12 is installed

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steve_w
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Re: [Solved]Freecad looking for Qt_5.15 but Qt_5.12 is installed

Post by steve_w »

Worked for me too, I think my problem arose when I installed thonny, any comment on that?

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Steve W
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amsguj
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Re: [Solved]Freecad looking for Qt_5.15 but Qt_5.12 is installed

Post by amsguj »

Worked for me too, but the directory to remove was /usr/local/lib/python3.8
(no ~/.local/lib/python3.8 for me).

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phixxx5
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Re: [Solved]Freecad looking for Qt_5.15 but Qt_5.12 is installed

Post by phixxx5 »

For me the solution was to uninstall the pip module and instead install using apt:

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pip3 uninstall PyQt5
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
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