Thread: Using Python and Qt on Maemo 5 - help needed
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-11-10 , 14:46
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Originally Posted by sjaensch View Post
Hey attila, actually I already checked out your presentation. Unfortunately, the presentation skips the crucial step - how to set up the development environment. I know I have to install PySide. On the www.pyside.org there is a repsitory line for maemo (armel), but none for x86. Somewhere else I read I have to use extras-devel. Then, what packages do I install?
Sorry, no X86 PySide yet in the SDK (or extras-devel), at the moment, I'd recommend going with PyQt (it will save you a lot of time for other reasons, too). It became available in Fremantle extras-devel a few days ago.

What I need is a step-by-step guide on how to setup my scratchbox environment so that your hello world example from
There is no step-by-step guide for scratchbox, as, well, in most scenarios you don't need (or want) scratchbox. Pluthon kind of expects you to have a device - it doesn't use scratchbox at all. Another thing is that scratchbox has various issues with python (versioning mess), not unsolvable, but something I'd rather not recommend to SDK newbies. If you don't need any maemo-specific API, you don't need any of this at all - you can develop with the desktop PyQt (or PySide if you're adventurous) and then just do some on-device optimizations with regard to the UI.