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thanks for the update and also for the offer - i will pass though. i am not planning to use imgseek regularly - i was only checking packages which has pyqt3 as a dependency once i figured out how to build it alongside the current sip. i also agree that extending sys.path is a better solution than using envvar.

@jose1711 OK, I've updated. I added code to the script so that you don't have to set the env variable (python allows to set import paths programmatically). I lost interest in the program years ago, I'm thinking of writing a program for image comparison myself anyway. Anyway, would you like to maintain this package?

now depends on python2-sip418 and needs this modification to build and package:

 build() {
   cd "$_dir"
-  python2 setup.py build
+  PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip418 python2 setup.py build
 }

 package() {
   cd "$_dir"
-  python2 setup.py install --prefix="$pkgdir"/usr
+  PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip418 python2 setup.py install --prefix="$pkgdir"/usr
   cd "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgSeekLib
   ln -s ImageDB.py ImgDB.py

to run one needs to set PYTHONPATH as follows: PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip418 imgSeek

################################### Check for PyQT
Could not import the PyQt library. Please install it.
The source for PyQt can be found at: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk. You should first try installing it from your distribution package system. (PyQT package)

I adopted the package and cleaned up a bit.
I also fixed the AUR dependencies so that they build.
Please rebuild qscintilla-qt3, pyqt3 and this (in this order) and it should work.

Having a similar problem now... I believe due to import qt which when done in python shows

RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v10.0 to v10.1 but the qt module requires API v9.2

the problem could be: "RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v9.0 but the qt module requires API v8.1"

when setup.py tries to import qt.

rebuild pyqt, but did not fix the problem (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32175)

#################################### Check for PyQT
Could not import the PyQt library. Please install it.
The source for PyQt can be found at: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk. You should first try installing it from your distribution package system. (PyQT package)

thing is that pyqt is installed:
jesse ~ $ pacman -Qs pyqt
local/pyqt 4.9.6-1
A set of Python 3.x bindings for the Qt toolkit
local/pyqt-common 4.9.6-1
Common PyQt files shared between pyqt and python2-pyqt
local/pyqt3 3.18.1-11
A set of Python bindings for the Qt3 toolkit
local/python2-pyqt 4.9.6-1
A set of Python 2.x bindings for the Qt toolkit

fixed

the command line script imgSeekCmd fails at "from imgSeekLib import ImgDB"

i believe it is a typo somewheres. making link from ImageDB.py to ImgDB.py makes it work...