Several improvements to the Readme
@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@ provides a number of enhancements only possible in a GUI, such as inline
figures, proper multiline editing with syntax highlighting, graphical calltips,
and more.
-![qtconsole](docs/source/_images/qtconsole.png)
+![qtconsole](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jupyter/qtconsole/master/docs/source/_images/qtconsole.png)
## Install Qtconsole
-The Qt console requires Qt, such as [PyQt5](http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro),
+The Qtconsole requires Python bindings for Qt, such as [PyQt5](http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro),
[PyQt4](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download),
or [PySide](http://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside).
Although [pip](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) and
[conda](http://conda.pydata.org/docs) may be used to install the Qtconsole, conda
-is simpler to use since it automatically installs PyQt. Alternatively,
-the Qt console installation with pip needs additional steps since pip cannot install
+is simpler to use since it automatically installs PyQt5. Alternatively,
+the Qtconsole installation with pip needs additional steps since pip doesn't install
the Qt requirement.
### Install using conda
@@ -39,21 +39,21 @@ To install:
pip install qtconsole
-**Note:** Make sure that Qt is installed. Unfortunately, Qt cannot be
-installed using pip. The next section gives instructions on installing Qt.
+**Note:** Make sure that Qt is installed. Unfortunately, Qt is not
+installed when using pip. The next section gives instructions on doing it.
### Installing Qt (if needed)
-We recommend installing PyQt with [conda](http://conda.pydata.org/docs):
+You can install PyQt5 with pip using the following command:
- conda install pyqt
+ pip install pyqt5
-or with a system package manager. For Windows, PyQt binary packages may be
+or with a system package manager on Linux. For Windows, PyQt binary packages may be
used.
**Note:** Additional information about using a system package manager may be
found in the [qtconsole documentation](https://qtconsole.readthedocs.io).
-More installation instructions for PyQT can be found in the [PyQt5 documentation](http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html) and [PyQt4 documentation](http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/installation.html)
+More installation instructions for PyQt can be found in the [PyQt5 documentation](http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html) and [PyQt4 documentation](http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/installation.html)
Source packages for Windows/Linux/MacOS can be found here: [PyQt5](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5) and [PyQt4](https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download).
