Installing PySide on a Mac OS X System

Installing prerequisites

Install latest pip distribution: download get-pip.py and run it using the python interpreter.

You need to install or build Qt 4.8 first, see the Qt Project Documentation.

Alternatively you can use Homebrew and install Qt with

$ brew install qt

Installing PySide

To install PySide on Mac OS X you can choose from the following options:

  1. Use pip to install the wheel binary packages:

    $ pip install -U PySide