[Slackbuilds-users] Didier Spaier's builds

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2026, 8:02 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2026, B. Watson wrote:
>
> > Looking for new maintainers for:
> >
> > system/qControlCenter
>
> qControlCenter is broken, and has been for years, ever since Slackware 15.0
> was released. It installs fine, but when you run it:
>
> $ qcontrolcenter
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/qcontrolcenter", line 10, in <module>
>      from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
> ImportError: No module named PyQt4
>
> It's been that way since qt4 and its python bindings were removed
> from Slackware (meaning, it likely worked in 14.2, but not at all in
> 15.0). Since nobody ever reported this as a problem, it's likely that
> nobody has even tried to use qControlCenter since at least 2022.
>
> We don't have anything that provides PyQt4 in our repo. We do have
> pyqode.qt, which might substitute for it... except that pyqode.qt is
> for Python 3, and qControlCenter is in Python 2 (and won't run in 3).
>
> Does anyone object to me just removing qControlCenter from the repo?
>

There might be a newer version at the link below, but I haven't had a
chance to check it:

http://www.slackel.gr/repo/source/slackel-source/qcontrolcenter/ver-0.3-python3/

No clue if they have the source repo available anywhere, or if it's even
worth keeping if it is if no one has bothered reporting the original being
broken.

Jeremy

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