Unable to install cadnano 2 - macOS Sonoma 14.6.1

[psundarp]

Tried to install cadnano2 and got the following error.
Preparing wheel metadata ... error
Complete output from command /Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/bin/python3 /Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/tmpvg04hvdd:
pyproject.toml: line 7: using '[tool.sip.metadata]' to specify the project metadata is deprecated and will be removed in SIP v7.0.0, use '[project]' instead
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 64, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
hook = backend.prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
AttributeError: module 'sipbuild.api' has no attribute 'prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 207, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 197, in main
    json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
  File "/Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 67, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
    config_settings)
  File "/Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 95, in _get_wheel_metadata_from_wheel
    whl_basename = backend.build_wheel(metadata_directory, config_settings)
  File "/private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-build-env-epj3v5cv/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/api.py", line 47, in build_wheel
    arguments=_convert_config_settings(config_settings))
  File "/private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-build-env-epj3v5cv/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/abstract_project.py", line 92, in bootstrap
    project.setup(pyproject, tool, tool_description)
  File "/private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-build-env-epj3v5cv/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/project.py", line 587, in setup
    self.apply_user_defaults(tool)
  File "project.py", line 66, in apply_user_defaults
    super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
  File "/private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-build-env-epj3v5cv/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtbuild/project.py", line 70, in apply_user_defaults
    super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
  File "/private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-build-env-epj3v5cv/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/project.py", line 237, in apply_user_defaults
    self.builder.apply_user_defaults(tool)
  File "/private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-build-env-epj3v5cv/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtbuild/builder.py", line 70, in apply_user_defaults
    "specify a working qmake or add it to PATH")
sipbuild.pyproject.PyProjectOptionException

----------------------------------------

Command "/Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/bin/python3 /Users/praneetha/virtualenvs/cn240/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/tmpvg04hvdd" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/ws/72dg9xpd3pb5ntv0xczpqch40000gn/T/pip-install-xysnlo54/PyQt6
You are using pip version 19.0.3, however version 24.0 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.