Unable to Install PyQt5 on Ubuntu 24.04 ARM64 with uv

[nimaxin]

Question

I'm trying to install the pyqt5 library on a Linux server with the following specifications:

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (Noble)
Architecture: ARM64 (aarch64)

However, when I run:
uv add pyqt5

I get this error:

error: Distribution `pyqt5-qt5==5.15.16 @ registry+https://pypi.org/simple` can't be installed because it doesn't have a source distribution or wheel for the current platform

It seems that there's no pre-built pyqt5 package for arm64. I tested this on an x86_64 machine, and it worked fine.

I’ve tried solutions from stackoverflow and ai generated suggestions, but none of them worked.

The only way I managed to install pyqt5 was using:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

However, my project uses uv, and I’d prefer to install it that way.
Any workaround to make it work with uv on arm64?

Platform

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (Noble)
Architecture: ARM64 (aarch64)

Version

uv 0.5.11

[charliermarsh]

Unfortunately no, if there's no prebuilt wheels shipped for ARM Linux, then I think the best we can do is build from source!