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PySide Downloads
Depending on your needs, PySide is available either as source code or as binary packages for various platforms. Source code can be downloaded from the Python Package Index [pypi.python.org], which also contains installation instructions for Linux and Windows.
Binaries
Binaries are available for various platforms as listed below.
Nightly Builds
The nightly builds packages are available at: http://www.pyside.org/files/nightly/ [pyside.org]. We do not recommend the use of these packages in production environment, use these only to test or development.
PySide Mobility
PySide Mobility binary packages are available for Maemo 5 (Fremantle, the Maemo release running on Nokia N900).
BuildScripts
Build scripts [github.com] for building PySide from the Git repositories. Supports several Desktop Linux distributions, MeeGo Netbook and Mac OS X.
Source code
The source code for latest PySide release can be downloaded from the links below or PyPI [pypi.python.org]:
- shiboken-1.1.2.tar.bz2 [qt-project.org]
- pyside-qt4.8+1.1.2.tar.bz2 [qt-project.org]
- pyside-tools-0.2.14.tar.bz2 [qt-project.org]
In case http://qt-project.org/uploads is inaccessible, please try alternate mirror at http://distutils.macports.org:
- https://distfiles.macports.org/apiextractor/
- https://distfiles.macports.org/generatorrunner/
- https://distfiles.macports.org/py-pyside/
- https://distfiles.macports.org/py-shiboken/
Alternatively, you can get the latest source code from our git repository at Qt Project’s Gerrit code review tool [codereview.qt-project.org] or from the read-only mirrors at qt.gitorious.org [qt.gitorious.org]. See details in the Building Pyside page.
The old repositories from pre-Qt era can be found from qt.gitorious.org [qt.gitorious.org] with -archive added to the repository names.
Build instructions can be found in the Building PySide page and PySide Development.
PySide Test
To check if PySide in installed correctly just enter a python console and type:
- import PySide
If no error is returned, you have successfully installed PySide, and can start developing with Qt and Python.
You can also check the version of your PySide installation:
- PySide.__version__
The result will be something like 1.1.0.

