Install PySide6 on macOS

by Martin Fitzpatrick Last updated Dec 15 PySide6 Installation Guides

This tutorial is also available for PyQt6 , PyQt5 , PySide2 and Tkinter

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Before you start the PySide6 tutorial you will need to have a working installation of PySide6 on your system. If you don't have either set up yet, the following steps will guide you through how to do this on macOS.

This guide is also available for Linux and Windows.

Install PySide6 on macOS

If you already have a working installation of Python 3 on macOS, you can go ahead and install PySide6 as for any other Python package, using the following --

bash

pip3 install pyside6

If you don't have an installation of Python 3, you will need to install one first. You can download macOS installers for Python 3 from the Python homepage. Once installed, you should be able to use the pip3 install command above to install PySide6.

Another alternative is to use Homebrew. Homebrew is a package manager for command-line software on macOS. Homebrew has both Python 3 and PySide6 available in their repositories.

Homebrew -- the missing package manager for macOS

To install homebrew run the following from the command line --

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bash

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

This is also available to copy and paste from the Homebrew homepage.

Once Homebrew is installed you can then install Python with --

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bash

brew install python3

With Python installed, you can then install PySide6 as normal, using pip3 install pyside6, or alternatively choose to install it using Homebrew with --

bash

brew install pyside6

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Install PySide6 on macOS 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.

Install PySide6 on macOS was published in installation on May 21, 2019 (updated December 15, 2025) . Feedback & Corrections can be submitted here.

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