installation keeps failing

[yunusp]

      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 452, in open
        buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-build-hfgbj4k8/PyQt5/setup.py'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-hfgbj4k8/PyQt5/

how should i fix this?

[trigg]

More information would help. What Distro, version etc.

[yunusp]

@trigg elementary os hera ubuntu 18.04.

[midget3111]

@yunusp running the following solved it for me -
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip && sudo pip3 install PyQt5

[yunusp]

ok this worked, thanks :)

[midget3111]

No problem! I'll go ahead and close the issue :)