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I installed QGIS 3.0 on Windows 10. I get this error everytime i run the pyrcc4 or pyrcc5 command:

'pyrcc4' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Even if I find a place with a pyrcc4.exe file or a place with apyrcc5.bat file and add the path to the environment variables I get the same error.

In the previous installation of osgeo4w i had a pyqtdev folder or something similar appear I think it was on C/. Was there supposed to be such a folder, do I need to download pyqt separately?

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  • you have a bats and a exe in bin folder,for example D:\OSGeo4W64\bin
    – Fran Raga
    Commented Mar 5, 2018 at 11:04
  • I have no pyrcc4 or pyrcc5 bat or exe in the bin folders...
    – Carmel Han
    Commented Mar 5, 2018 at 13:56
  • pyrcc5 are inside Python36\Scripts and pyrcc4 in a bin,try reinstall Qgis maybe
    – Fran Raga
    Commented Mar 5, 2018 at 14:04
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    I have a pyrcc5 in: C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\Python36\Scripts, but even though I add the path to the path & python path variables the command pyrcc5 is not recognized
    – Carmel Han
    Commented Mar 5, 2018 at 14:08
  • @Carmel Han Do you have a QGIS 2.x version also installed in your system? If answer is yes I have a solution.
    – xunilk
    Commented Mar 5, 2018 at 14:36

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Try running a batch file with the following:

@echo off
call "C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.0\bin\o4w_env.bat"
call "C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.0\bin\qt5_env.bat"
call "C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.0\bin\py3_env.bat"

@echo on
pyrcc5 -o resources.py resources.qrc

either place the batch file in your directory with resources.py or type in an absolute path.

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  • It works for me. I had another solution but this is better and quicker. +1.
    – xunilk
    Commented Mar 8, 2018 at 14:23
  • The problem is i also have folders missing. for example I am missing the folder of ".qgis2". That's why i think there is a problem with the instalation of Qgis 3.0.0
    – Carmel Han
    Commented Mar 11, 2018 at 11:40
  • do you mean C:\users\USERNAME\.qgis2? In QGIS3.0, this has been moved to C:\users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\QGIS\QGIS3
    – Kezah
    Commented Mar 11, 2018 at 22:02
  • Works great, but need to adjust the path in the calls to the installed qgis-version. I.e for me today c:\program files\qgis 3.10\bin
    – MortenSickel
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 9:29
  • In case anyone is getting the following error - C:\PROGRA~1\QGIS3~1.10\apps\Python37\lib\site-packages\PyQt5\pyrcc_main.py: File does not exist 'resources.qrc' Do a search for 'resources.qrc'. I found it in the plugin that I had just created with QGIS plugin builder. Then, make sure to edit the batch file described above to point to the absolute path of resources.qrc. This solved my problem.
    – jonesy19
    Commented Jun 2, 2020 at 12:49
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For an additional information for people using ubuntu you can install libs like this 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
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Kezah's answer applied for OSGeo4W64:

Try running a batch file with the following:

@echo off
call "C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\o4w_env.bat"
call "C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\qt5_env.bat"
call "C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\py3_env.bat"

@echo on
pyrcc5 -o resources.py resources.qrc

either place the batch file in your directory with resources.py or type in an absolute path.

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