Instructions when installing from tarball downloaded from the Mnemosyne website:

Install the following dependencies if needed:
- Python (http://www.python.org) 3.5 or later
- PyQt (https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5) 5.6 or
  later, including QtWebEngineWidgets.
- Matplotlib (http://matplotlib.org)
- cheroot (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheroot/) 5 or later
- Webob (http://webob.org) 1.4 or later
- Pillow (http://python-pillow.org)
- gTTS for Google text-to-speech (https://pypi.org/project/gTTS/)
- googletrans for Google translate support
  (https://pypi.org/project/googletrans/) Make sure to use the latest
  development version, not the 2.4.0 release!
- For Latex support: the latex and dvipng commands must be available
  (e.g. TeXLive)

Install Mnemosyne itself with 'sudo python setup.py install'.