Errors when running .exe produced by pyinstaller with conda

by Martin Fitzpatrick Last updated Sep 17 PyQt5 FAQ

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R_de_Bruin | 2021-04-10 08:12:08 UTC | #1

When using conda, make sure to use the pyinstaller from the conda-forge channel instead of the one from conda. Conda gives you version 3.6 which for me did not work with the examples given here. conda-forge gives version 4.4 which does work.

so:

python

conda install pyinstaller -c conda-forge

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Errors when running .exe produced by pyinstaller with conda was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt. Martin founded PythonGUIs to provide easy to follow GUI programming tutorials to the Python community. He has written a number of popular Python books on the subject.

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