Install PySide2 on Ubuntu Linux
Install PySide2 on Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions

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This tutorial is also available for PyQt6 , PySide6 , PyQt5 and Tkinter

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Before you start creating applications with PySide2 you will need to have a working installation on your system. If you don't have either set up yet, the following steps will guide you through how to do this on Ubuntu Linux.

This guide is also available for macOS and Windows.

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Install PySide2 on Ubuntu Linux

The simplest way to install PySide2 on Linux is to use Python's pip packaging tool, just as for other packages. For Python3 installations this is usually called pip3.

bash 
pip3 install pyside2

After install is finished, you should be able to run python (or python3) and import PySide2 without errors.

python 
Python 3.7.6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PySide2
>>>

You can now start creating Python GUI applications with PySide2.

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Install PySide2 on Ubuntu Linux was written by Martin Fitzpatrick with contributions from Punition Chaetognathan .

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.

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