Cygwin - Eric6 installer cannot find qscintilla2, which was installed via cygwin setup

Question

I am new to Cygwin, using it in order to learn Python. I am attempting to install Eric6 Python IDE, which requires certain packages such as PyQt5, Scintilla2, etc.

I installed python2, python3, PyQt5, pip3.6 (pip-9.0.3), and several other packages using the Cygwin setup app (setup-x86_64.exe).

When I attempt to install Eric6:

$ python3 install.py
Checking dependencies
Python Version: 3.6.4
Found PyQt5
Found pyuic5
Sorry, please install QScintilla2 and
its PyQt5/PyQt4 wrapper.
Error: cannot import name 'Qsci'

Update

Per matzeri's answer, I found that I had missed seeing scintilla2 in the Cygwin packages list, so I installed it from there [package: mingw64-x86_64-qscintilla2-qt5] and it appeared to install without any issues. However, I continue to get the exact same error as before when attempting to install Eric6 Sorry, please install QScintilla2 and its PyQt5/PyQt4 wrapper. Error: cannot import name 'Qsci'

I have tried rebooting both Cygwin and the local machine, with no luck.

Answer 1

install qscintilla2 from cygwin setup. Before installing anything from pip you should check if the package is already available in cygwin. See

https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html

for the full list. For QT5 you should install:

libqscintilla2_qt5-common   
libqscintilla2_qt5-devel    
libqscintilla2_qt5_13
qscintilla2

Answer 2

After installing qscintilla2 from CygWin's setup

package: mingw64-x86_64-qscintilla2-qt5 (QT Scintilla editor class for Win64 toolchain)

as recommended by Matzeri, I then also installed these two packages:

mingw64-x86_64-qscintilla2-qt4 (QT Scintilla editor class for Win64 toolchain)

python3-pyqt5-qsci (Scintilla editor class for QT4)

After installing [mingw64-x86_64-qscintilla2-qt4] the problem continued as before, but as soon as I installed [python3-pyqt5-qsci], I was able to re-run the setup

python3 install.py

and it completed successfully

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UPDATE:

Eric6 was not the best development environment for Python under Windows. I found these other two that work great and do not require Cygwin or any other special environment -- they work under Windows, comme il faut:

Pyscripter - Fantastic IDE, dev team responds quickly and seriously considers bug reports and feature requests, step-thru debugger, really great debug/variable windows that can be dragged onto a second monitor, pip install system hasn't failed me yet. (Caution: uses Ctrl+Y as delete line instead of redo, but dev has assured me that this will be fixed in next update.)

VSCode - open source IDE by Microsoft that essentially duplicates Visual Studio. Many strengths, but more difficult to watch global variables.