Where do I find pyside6-deploy?

jaydub

I read in the docs about pyside6-deploy for deploying Qt/Python apps, but I have no idea where to find pyside6-deploy.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

I am using Qt open source on MacOS.

Thank you.

JonB

@jaydub
This is an excellent question! Since https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/deployment/index.html says

starting with 6.4, we ship a new tool called pyside6-deploy that deploys your PySide6 application to all desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, and macOS

I can only assume that, so long as your are on PySide 6.4+ it comes with the PySide6 download. Have you had a good look through whatever area that fills with its files?

https://github.com/qtproject/pyside-pyside-setup/blob/dev/doc/changelogs/changes-6.4.0 includes among listed changes:

[PYSIDE-1612] A tool for deployment, pyside6-deploy, has been added.

Don't ask me how you use it, but https://github.com/qtproject/pyside-pyside-setup/tree/dev/sources/pyside6/tests/tools/pyside6-deploy seems to be where it is tested from(?), maybe that gives clues?

CristianMaureira

@jaydub When you pip install pyside6 in your virtual environment, you get all the pyside6-* tools in your PATH. They will live inside the <virtual environment>/bin directory. The same applies with pyside6-uic, pyside6-rcc, pyside6-designer (yeah, we ship designer), etc.

Shyamnath

when you do a pip install PySide6, it should automatically install pyside6-deploy along with the Qt Python modules. You should be able to simply run it from the terminal.
You should be able to find it in <your_venv_path>/bin/pyside6-deploy incase you are your virtualenv. Otherwise in your corresponding Python's bin folder.

pyside6-deploy is a wrapper around a script called deploy.py, which you can find in <your_venv_path>/ib/python<version>/site-packages/PySide6/scripts/deploy.py

jaydub

Thank you all for your feedback. Very helpful.

Turns out that I was using python v3.9, so when I would do the 'pip install PySide6', pip was installing PySide 6.2.x.

I updated Python to v3.11, now PySide6 6.5.x gets installed and pyside6-deploy (and the various other tools) are properly in place.

Thank you!

jaydub

@jaydub UPDATE: I installed Python 3.11 and when I run pyside6-deploy, nuitka warns that using python 3.11 is experimental, consider using 3.10. Needless to say, I got an error when I tried to build the deployable under python 3.11. So, I uninstalled Python 3.11.

Installed 3.10 instead. Unfortunately, when I run pyside6-deploy on my project, still fails to build (separate issue), but does not complain about Python 3.11.

JonB

@jaydub I have answered on your separate issue.

wenqin

I want to know, after installing PySide6 using conda command, why is there no PySide6-deploy?

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet

That's a question you should bring the maintainers of the conda PySide6 recipe.