ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt6'

[stsp]

Is there an existing issue for this already?

• I have searched the existing issues

Description

Ubuntu-24.10.

Cloned the electrum repo and did:
pipx install .
That succeeded.
But then:

$ electrum
  0.50 | E | daemon.Daemon | GUI raised exception: SystemExit("Error: Could not import PyQt6. On Linux systems, you may try 'sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt6'"). shutting down.
  0.50 | E | __main__ | daemon.run_gui errored
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stas/.local/pipx/venvs/electrum/lib/python3.12/site-packages/electrum/gui/qt/__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
    import PyQt6
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt6'

But its actually installed:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
python3-pyqt6 is already the newest version (6.7.1-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.

So what to do?

[stsp]

Tried this:

$ pipx install pyqt6
  installed package pyqt6 6.8.1, installed using Python 3.12.7
  These apps are now globally available
    - pylupdate6
    - pyuic6
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

Still the same error running electrum.

[SomberNight]

Cloned the electrum repo and did:
pipx install .

maybe try $ pipx install ".[gui,crypto]"

[stsp]

Hmm, I am sure I did that
too, but when fighting with
#9625
Now I tried that for this
particular problem, and it
is a solution.
Thanks!

Would you like to amend the
error msg before closing this
ticket?

[stsp]

Full error msg looks like this:

$ electrum
  0.31 | E | daemon.Daemon | GUI raised exception: SystemExit("Error: Could not import PyQt6. On Linux systems, you may try 'sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt6'"). shutting down.
  0.31 | E | __main__ | daemon.run_gui errored
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stas/.local/pipx/venvs/electrum/lib/python3.12/site-packages/electrum/gui/qt/__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
    import PyQt6
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt6'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stas/.local/pipx/venvs/electrum/lib/python3.12/site-packages/electrum/daemon.py", line 593, in run_gui
    gui = __import__('electrum.gui.' + gui_name, fromlist=['electrum'])
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/stas/.local/pipx/venvs/electrum/lib/python3.12/site-packages/electrum/gui/qt/__init__.py", line 37, in <module>
    raise GuiImportError(
electrum.GuiImportError: Error: Could not import PyQt6. On Linux systems, you may try 'sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt6'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stas/.local/bin/electrum", line 466, in handle_cmd
    d.run_gui()
  File "/home/stas/.local/pipx/venvs/electrum/lib/python3.12/site-packages/electrum/daemon.py", line 595, in 

So there is something to fix,
nested exceptions...